Your comments absolutely make sense Dan! I am in full agreement!
Hans
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:49 PM Dan Reiff <
dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
Hello Tom, Doug and the Tweeters Community,
>
>
Yes, I agree and support those suggestions.
>
>
I also understand that at times individuals are trying their best to
>
quickly share time sensitive information with us about a find and location
>
and are focused on sharing and then getting back to observations in the
>
field. I tend to overlook the typos or abbreviations and am just impressed
>
and grateful that they took time from their field observations to share the
>
information with our community.
>
If I would like clarification, I send an email to them requesting
>
clarification.
>
>
I would like to make an additional suggestion regarding sending emails to
>
Tweeters.
>
I would find it helpful for senders to respond to a original email for a
>
sighting, question or anything else by "reply all" and for all to continue
>
to do so for the whole discussion.
>
I believe this will result in clarity and efficiency and at times, honor
>
the originator of the emails.
>
At times, people will start a new email regarding the same subject and
>
this is sometimes difficult to follow and makes it more difficult to find
>
preceding comments.
>
>
Also, at times I have taken ten or more minutes to consider my response as
>
I am typing it, then send it, only to find someone replied with a similar
>
or same thought before I touched send, which is mildly embarrassing, but
>
part of the deal with emails.
>
>
Also, I hope that the Tweeters administrators are still considering
>
allowing at least one photo or sound recording to be attached to emails. I
>
believe this will be a major improvement for species Identification
>
purposes.
>
This addition may also bring new people to the community as they ask for
>
help identifying species and continue to learn from responses.
>
>
Thank you to everyone for sharing information. I have always appreciated
>
that.
>
Dan Reiff
>
MI
>
>
>
Sent from my iPhone
>
>
On Apr 28, 2022, at 9:59 PM, Tom Benedict <benedict.t at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
I agree wholeheartedly with Doug's request. Acronyms and abbreviations
>
should be like pronouns and always have an antecedent. The American
>
Psychological Association Style Guide
>
<https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/abbreviations/> has useful guidelines.
>
>
Tom Benedict
>
Seahurst, WA
>
>
On Apr 28, 2022, at 19:05, Doug Santoni <dougsantoni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
I love getting news of Washingtonn bird sightings on both Tweeters and
>
E-Bird, and I'm grateful for all of this great information…but wondering if
>
posters could please try to help some of us out by avoiding cryptic
>
acronyms and abbreviations. A recent Union Bay sighting referred to a "ho"
>
near "UHC" (this sounds a bit unsavory), and I just saw comments, again
>
relating to Union Bay, on K2 (isn't that a mountain in the Himalayas?),
>
which left me completely befuddled. Could I kindly ask that posters be
>
sympathetic to those of us who may not be in on this insiders' language?
>
>
Doug Santoni
>
Seattle, WA
>
Dougsantoni at gmail dot com
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
>
Tweeters mailing list
>
Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>
>
_______________________________________________
>
Tweeters mailing list
>
Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>
--
*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
thefedderns at gmail.com