On Sun, 14 Jul 1996 Ghstout at aol.com wrote:

> I don't know whether anyone else has troubles with four letter name codes
> when they appear in tweeters mail, but I do. Consequently I took the WA bird
> list supplied by the WBRC, then pruned and resorted it to run by alphabetized
> codes. On the chance that someone else will find it useful I'll try to
> append it to the end of this message. It's in a plain DOS text format since
> I doubt that anything fancier will survive transmission in this way.
>
> George Stout
> Gig Harbor


Thanks, George!

Perhaps this will also be a good reminder to tweeters that the four letter
codes make posts significantly harder to read and understand, and not just
for new tweets. I use the codes myself in my field notes, but find it
annoying to read posts where the author doesn't take the time to spell out
bird names. It only takes a few more seconds...

Chris Hill
Everett, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu