On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Dick Moores wrote:

> BTW I saw your post of something you say was from Seabird. Is that a
> list? Where is it?

Seabird is a world wide list coming out of South Africa with about 400
subscribers.

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:13:47 SAST-2

SEABIRD-L

MEMBERSHIP of Seabird-l, a listserver about seabirds and for marine
ornithologists, is not restricted in any way.

The listserver was initiated in August 1993 to help marine
ornithologists exchange information and to keep in contact on a
worldwide basis. In April 1995 membership stood at about 200 and was
growing by one or two people a week.

Examples of its use are requests for and offers of information,
ideas, data and collected material (such as skeletal and soft-tissue
samples), advertising employment, bursary, fellowship and volunteer
opportunities, notices of meetings, availability of written materials
(e.g. expedition reports, books, proceedings, reprints), etc.

All e-mail messages posted on Seabird-l will automatically be sent to
all subscribers.

Seabird-l is co-managed by John Cooper (jcooper at botzoo.uct.ac.za) and
Andrea Plos (aplos at botzoo.uct.ac.za), Percy FitzPatrick Institute of
African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South
Africa.

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To join Seabird-l send to

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the following in the FIRST LINE of the MESSAGE FIELD of an e-mail
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SUBSCRIBE SEABIRD <YOUR SURNAME, FIRST NAME>

This MUST be followed on a new line by a double dash <-->, after which
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address list. An acknowledgement will automatically be sent to new
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INFORMATION SEABIRD


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INDEX SEABIRD

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