Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!dinorah.wustl.edu!mary From: mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: INDOOR vs. OUTDOOR:Please read(was Re: Aspiration in birds) Summary: Sauce for the goose... Message-ID: <1990Aug1.171049.29466@dinorah.wustl.edu> Date: 1 Aug 90 17:10:49 GMT References: <37352@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Computerized Medical Systems Lines: 32 In article , grp@unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) writes: > It seems that there has been a recent influx of pet parrot problems in this > newsgroup. Without starting a war like there was a year and a half ago, > I would like to request that all pet articles be prefixed with the word > INDOOR. This was something that was decided upon last time, as it allows the > birders in the group to sort through the articles more easily. To get terribly technical, the proposal (by Sandra I believe) was for pet articles to have "INDOOR" in the subject line, and for birding articles to have "OUTDOOR" in the subject line. Obviously you are aware the complete proposal, as your subject is "INDOOR vs. OUTDOOR". There was no vote to make this some kind of law, and the people who want this are apparently too lazy (or to be charitable, too busy) to run a monthly reminder like other groups have. So, of course, newcomers are not going to be aware of this. Surprisingly (or maybe not), a look at current articles shows that one out of three INDOOR threads are so labeled, but NO OUTDOOR threads are labled at all! Come on guys! You know darn good and well that there are usually more birding postings, so why aren't they labled so us pet owners can sort through the articles more easily? After all, birding articles are not usually as urgent as pet articles can be: a person requesting info on a sick bird may need to find it as soon as posible, or the bird might die. It was thanks to a posting I made in this group that my budgie found a proper avian vet and was finally cured of the upper respiratory inspection from which he had been suffering from for months. If you lot are going to insist on "INDOOR", then we should have "OUTDOOR" too. Moving to rec.pets isn't much of an alternative, just try to find the 2 or 3 bird postings in 135 total current postings! -Mary