Dear Colin and others
I beg to differ with Colin: local info sites are very useful, but a central site/register, in which these sites are listed would be a good idea. A free and open Yahoogroups site like ntbirds is certainly not semi-private, even though it was started by a single individual, in this case Niven McCrie. If anything it is more open than the Eremaea birdlines ( NSW , NT etc.), or lists, because the senders email address is shown, and requests for further information can be sent either directly, bypassing the site, or via the notice board so that every subscriber sees it. If you do not want to clutter up your inbox with birding info from several sites, on top of personal email, the easy answer is to open a free Yahoo, or other account, and direct only the selected info line, say ntbirds , to it.
As a regular NT visitor I have 1880 unread messages in my mail box, of a total of almost 5000, accumulated since 2004 (Yahoo must have plenty of storage capacity). While in Sydney I do not check my inbox too often, hence the unread mail. It is possible to search one’s accumulated mails, so the inbox is an accessible archive of all messages since subscription, and becomes a mine of information.
Cheers Bas Hensen ===============================
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