NBHC BIRDFAX SUBSCRIPTIONS
NBHC BIRDFAX BILLING
NBHC BIRDFAX, How to Subscribe

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POSTED BY: Chuck Williamson
EMAIL: CWilliamson at PimaCC.Pima.EDU
LOCATION: 7309 E. Princeton, Tucson, Az 85710
LATLONG: 32 degrees 13 minutes N 110 degrees 55 minutes W

Hello BirdChat!

NBHC BIRDFAX SUBSCRIPTIONS:
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Through the NBHC BIRDFAX, the NBHC is extending its services -
now reaching out beyond the Internet!
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Birders can now subscribe to NBHC BIRDFAX via BirdServ to receive
individual hotlines by regular AUTOMATED FAX. This service is
for 24 hour fax machines maintained birders or at nature centers
that want to monitor a particular hotline but who possibly are
not on internet email systems.
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I have been piloting this system for over a year for about 50 fax
subscribers to various BirdServ Standard Format Hotlines for at
least a year and by golly, I just have to admit it is really is
working. Where I've hesitated has been coming up with a billing
scheme.
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But, here is the billing scheme. Now, let's get on with it!


NBHC BIRDFAX BILLING:
In order to cover my long distance phone expenses associated with
the NBHC BIRDFAX there will be a fee for this service.
Additionally, a small fee of 25 cents is charged for each hotline
transmission which GOES BACK TO THE CONTRIBUTING HOTLINE.
Charges are as follows per hotline transmission.
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1) Recipient with pay 125% all calls charges involved in
each transmission (this includes all false connects that may
be involved in establishing the connection!). The extra 25%
goes for my handling costs - phone line, software, billing
time.
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2) For each successful transmission the recipient pays 25
cents that goes back to the CONTRIBUTION HOTLINE.
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3) Bills will be sent out irregularly. Maybe once every
month or two. Donations back to contribution hotline will
be made irregularly too (done as they accure to amounts
worth mailing out).
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From my experience looking at current phone bills for most
hotlines and given the above formula I suspect the cost to the
recipient for each hotline transmission will be somewhere between
$0.80 and $1.50.

NBHC BIRDFAX, How to Subscribe
In addition to enlisting online through BirdServ birders who want
to subscribe to this service can subscribe to the NBHC BIRDFAX by
sending me a self-addressed envelope to
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NBHC BIRDFAX
c/o Chuck Williamson
7309 E. Princeton
Tucson Arizona 85710
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To subscribe to a hotline by email through BirdServ, send the
following command lines within the message body of a email message to
the new address of BirdServ, BirdServ at listserv.arizona.edu
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call birdserv BIRDFAX AZTU FAXPHONE
BILLTO: billtoName
MAILTO: yourAddress, yourCity, yourState, yourCountry, yourZip
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any comments you have


NBHC BIRDFAX HOTLINES:
As of November 1994 available hotlines are as follows (a revised
list will be forthcoming).
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AZPH Arizona Phoenix
AZTU Arizona Tucson
CALA California Los Angeles
CANO California Northern California
CASF California San Francisco Bay
CTCT Connecticut statewide
IDWA N. Idaho / E. WA.
KSST Kansas statewide
LPBO Ontario Canada Long Point B. Ob.
MAEA Massachusetts eastern
MAWE Massachusetts western
MIDE Michigan Detroit
MNST Minnesota statewide
MOST Missouri statewide
NBNB New Brunswick Canadaprovince
NJCM New Jersey Cape May
NJNJ New Jersey statewide
NSNS Nova Scotia Canada province
NYBU New York Buffalo
NYIT New York Ithaca
NYNY New York New York
OKST Oklahoma statewide
PAPH Pennsylvania Philadelphia
RIRI Rhode Island statewide
TXRG Texas Rio Grande Valley
WASE Washington Seattle
WIST Wisconson statewide


1001 thanks to the transcribers who are taking the time to put their
transcipts into the BirdServ standard format! The BirdServ standard
format allows not only the hotline to be automatically processed and
routed, but the Birds Mentioned become keywords of a searchable
sightings bank. For more information on the BirdServ standard format
for hotlines contact me!

Any questions or comments contact me directly at
CWilliamson at PimaCC.Pima.EDU.

Good luck!
Chuck Williamson
7309 E. Princeton
Tucson Arizona 85710

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>From jmorlan at SLIP.NETWed Dec 21 10:11:29 1994
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 07:32:25 -0800
From: Joe Morlan <jmorlan at SLIP.NET>
Reply to: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)"
<BIRDCHAT at ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BIRDCHAT <BIRDCHAT at ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: NBHC BIRDFAX Service & Hotline Kickback

I have also been sending the Northern California Weekly and Northern
California Monthly transcripts to a select group of fax subscribers in
the South San Francisco Bay Area using a free internet fax server. I
believe Adam Winer has been doing the same with the Daily BirdBox
summaries.

There are two main advantages to this system. 1) It is completely free
and 2) Once you enter in a list of internet fax addresses in your address
book, you can automatically send the faxes along with your Birdxxxx
transcript.

There is one big disadvantage. There are large area which are not covered
by this service. Some of the places which are covered include East
Tennessee, New York City, District of Columbia (non-government only),
Boston, Japan, Australia, Denmark, some areas in the UK.

For more details, request a faq from tpc-faq at town.hall.org. For a list of
covered exchanges write to tpc-coverage at town.hall.org.

Further discussion should probably be moved to Bird_RBA.

Joe Morlan
Albany, CA