Subject: Re: tweeters as rba
Date: Jun 8 09:07:33 1994
From: Steve Hallstrom - steveh at u.washington.edu


David asks two questions that Dan and I have discussed while setting up
Tweeters. In general the concept of posting the RBA seems to be one of the
functions of tweeters, the other being the discussion of species, habitat
etc such as the Boreal Chickadee. My concern is that the list not get
cluttered with casual messages and personal dialogues - that the signal
to noise ratio stay very high. After many years on these lists I can assure
you that is the evolutionary nature of the animal. So please consider
the significance of the message to the birding community as a whole when
making postings. Many discussions can take place off the list between
the individuals involved. As an example Gene Hunn is working to get the
BBA quadrants done in some western counties and several "tweeters" are
involved. It's off the list. At some time Gene may use the list to
notify others of how they can participate, a significant request for an
important birding activity.

The second question regards a Forum for Audubon. I have been considering this
also and am pleased to see David has also. If I set it up what are the
guidelines that would be appropriate? Please send any responses to me
at steveh at u.washington.edu. I'll get back with a summary of suggestions
to those who respond.

Steve Hallstrom

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 17:15:18 -0700
Sender: tweeters at u.washington.edu
From: wrightdb at pigsty.dental.washington.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: tweeters as rba

Tweeters is "updated" nearly instantaneously -- at any rate, much more
frequently than it would be practical for hotline tapes to be updated (or to
check for updates on hotline tapes for that matter). It would useful if folks
on tweeters who call in a rare/unusual bird (chaseable ones at least) to a
hotline [Seattle, Vancouver, eastern Wash hotlines, all of which are
indispensible resources] would post it to tweeters as well. Scott Ray's post a

couple of weeks ago re the Black-throated Sparrow at Point No Point was a good
example of the potential tweeters has for rapid communication. The Oregonians
seem to do a lot of this with their *obol*.


Just a thought.


Also, I wonder if there would be sufficient interest to put a Washington State
Audubon Soc. (or SAS) forum on the net, a la tweeters (or is it already?).
Certainly there is a sufficient number of issues to be discussed.


David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu