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From: dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: new group needed?
Keywords: recreation.birding.wild
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.133224.27274@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 20 Jun 91 13:32:24 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.184117.19527@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun19.193701.22443@cbnewsl.att.com>
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <1991Jun19.193701.22443@cbnewsl.att.com> sw@cbnewsl.att.com (Stuart Warmink) writes:
>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...

Well, if you do, it'll just be resumption of the one we had last year
(and the year before, and the year before that...). :-(

Unfortunately, this topic crops up with depressing regularity on this
group, and the solutions that have been proposed over the years never
seem to work to the entire satisfaction of everyone. Many suggestions
have been made to the effect that all the cage-related articles should
be posted to rec.pets, but I'm sure even mentioning that option will
remind people of lots of reasons why that's not on. We seem to go
through periods of uneasy coexistence followed by shorter or longer
bouts of trench warfare.
>
>PS Keep reading this group - there are birding postings too! :-/

The best way to make sure birders are well represented here is to *post
some articles about birding*, seems to me. Trip reports, sightings,
reviews of new books, requests for assistance...
>-- 
>Stuart Warmink, Whippany, NJ, USA  |  Netnews is an illusion caused by dots
>sw@cbnewsl.att.com                 |  of phosphor glowing behind glass.

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