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From: jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Indoor birds and birdwatching
Message-ID: <21586@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 05:24:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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I received a number of replies to my posting about Senegal parrots and
lories.  Thank you.  I also got some mail, of varying degrees of
politeness, telling me that this is not the group to discuss such things.

Like most people, I find new groups by scanning for words in my .newsrc.  I
found rec.birds.  I scanned through it and saw several articles about pet
birds.  I also looked through rec.pets.  There were hardly any bird
articles there at all. 

If you're serious about keeping indoor bird discussions out of this
newsgroup, you'll have to do one of two things:  rename it to
rec.birdwatching, or set up another group called rec.pet.birds (similar to
rec.pet.dogs).  I know that's giving in to barbarism and all that, but it
might be effective.
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Jack Hamilton     Personal mail:  jfh@netcom.uucp   
                  US Mail:        Box 281107, SFIA, CA  94128