AMEN!!!! ....and that's not a 4 letter code.

Roger Olstad
Lake Forest Park


> From: Stewart Wechsler <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:16:23 -0700
> To: <jora at riseup.net>, <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Re: VATH - 4 letter codes again
>
> You've all heard it before, but I'll say it again and accept the attacks.
>
> This is not personal, but for all that use the 4 letter codes in Tweeters
> postings or are tempted to do so. I expect some of you may use them in an
> effort to make postings more concise, but that would be a false economy.
>
> Multiply the number of people that may spend time pondering what a "VATH" or
> some other 4 letter code is (anyone know how many Tweeters subscribers there
> are?), times the number of seconds or minutes each would spend on the
> average pondering what the code refers to, and if that would take more time
> than typing the full name out both in the subject line and again after the
> first use in the text, then please type out the full name out in the subject
> line and again in the text after the first use. Even if a bird has been
> referred to repeatedly in a recent thread in tweeters, not all of us read
> all of the postings, so I may not have paid much attention to a posting
> about a Varied Thrush and may not remember that VATH was Varied Thrush, but
> will spend 10 seconds or more trying to think of what bird someone is
> talking about to see if it is a subject is interesting to me.
>
> It is a repeated irritant for many of us to try to decipher codes mixed into
> the Tweeters postings. This is while trying to rapidly get through
> innumberable e-mails of all sorts that may each take many seconds or minutes
> each to sort through. I believe it is selfish to save up to 8 seconds
> typing time for yourself while wasting a cumulative 500 seconds or more of
> irritation time for the rest of the Tweeters subscribers.
>
> If people want an insiders club for those who know and remember all of the
> codes you might consider setting up a separate list serve for that elite
> inner circle. It could be called "TWEE" (not to be confused with a Towhee
> call note).
>
> Stewart Wechsler
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> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Tweeters] Re: VATH
>
>
> This morning I heard a VATH calling in the conifers next my house.
> ...
>
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