Here's ANOTHER posting from a silent type. I'm happy to hear that you've
changed you mind about separating out the Yardbirds from the Tweeters BUT
it seems that one of the attractions of Yardbirds is that people seem to
want to have a forum where they can share their euphoric experiences
without getting flamed for wasting bandwidth. There have been several
comments to this effect. Is it possible for Tweeters to accomodate a
small percentage of friendly chatter? If not, I think a split is
inevitable and I think both sides will loose something. (Dual list
membership notwithstanding.)


On Fri, 12 Aug 1994, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> I appreciate your input, Lisa and Jackie. It's good to hear from previously
> silent members of these networks, so we know the stuff is actually being
> looked at and thought about by someone. Parenthetically, I write as if I've
> been doing this all my life, and in fact I just got hooked into e-mail less
> than a year ago (and maybe "hooked" is the word for it); this strikes me
> as pretty funny.
>
> I think one important function of tweeters, even for people with little
> knowledge of or experience with birds, is to ask questions. No one should
> think less of anyone else on a bulletin board if they ask an elementary
> question (the "e-mail etiquette" that I have read about in several
> articles), and there's usually one or more people willing to answer it.
> Since there is a huge spread of knowledge and experience among us, there
> are always people who know a bit more than you do, and maybe they can
> answer one of your questions. Then there are others who can answer one of
> *their* questions, and so on. That's the way it oughta be.
>
> I wish there didn't have to be a separation between yardbirds and tweeters,
> because I know they will have a lot in common. After more thought, and
> contrary to what I wrote before, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to keep
> them together, and only effect a separation if a lot of messages had too
> little import to the group as a whole. Stuff about what's going on in our
> yards really does overlap with stuff about the composition of migrant
> shorebird flocks at Grays Harbor, where to find three-toed woodpeckers,
> the food habits of peregrine falcons, or the definition of Neotropical
> migrants.
>
> My only concern would be if we had a lot of postings such as "the
> chickadees in my yard sure are cute," or "it was wonderful being out in the
> salt air with the shorebird flocks swooping by," I feel exactly the same
> way, but I probably wouldn't share it by e-mail, as both mailboxes and the
> network systems themselves really can get overburdened. But I do
> think--after these recent exchanges--that there is a lot of latitude in
> what tweeters can contain.
>
> Dennis Paulson
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