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From: sw@cbnewsl.att.com (Stuart Warmink)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: new group needed?
Summary: birding first?
Keywords: recreation.birding.wild
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.193701.22443@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 19:37:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.184117.19527@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Interface Systems @ Bell Labs
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In article <1991Jun19.184117.19527@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, aewright@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Aaron E. Wright) writes:
> i am new to the news network.  is there a group for birders/birdwatchers, as opposed to birdkeepers?  does anyone know how to start such a thing?  

The header line of this newsgroup says something like:
"Newsgroup rec.birds (Hobbyists interested in bird watching)"

Seems to me like it started of for birders - but I wasn't reading this
group when it started, so I don't know for sure. If it did then any new
group (if one is needed at all) should really be rec.birds.indoors or something like that.

I find it a little ironic that this group is used both by people who enjoy
finding and watching birds in the wild, and those that keep them mostly
in cages. Hope I don't start a flame war here...

PS Keep reading this group - there are birding postings too! :-/
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