The Decline of BA
By Birding-Aus, on January 5th, 2016 When the Long-billed Dowitcher appeared late 2014 I waited for info on birding-aus. Virtually nothing appeared. I enquired and found it was all on the Facebook Aust twitchers group. The young folk don’t do email! Steve Clark On Tuesday, 5 January 2016, A Smith < berigora@gmail.com berigora@gmail.com’);>> wrote: > Like Kim, I am not a Facebook user. So for those of us that don’t use that > form of social media, what is being posted to Facebook (and not B-A) that I > am missing? > Regards > Alastair > > > On 5 Jan 2016, at 16:00, Tony Russell < pratincole08@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let’s hope Russ is reading all this good stuff ! > > —–Original Message—– > From: Birding-Aus [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@birding-aus.org] On Behalf > Of > Kim Sterelny > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 2:18 PM > To: Birding Aus > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] The Decline of BA > > Hi Folks > > I. I am not a facebook user and I find this list immensely helpful and > informative. Whenever I have need advise I have got it, and its been > informed and detailed. I am very grateful to Russell and any others who > have kept it in being. > > 2. Obviously, there have been the odd thread (perhaps even this one) that > have gone on beyond their best-before date. But the subject line usually > gives those away, and one can just delete them. > > 3. Equally obviously, there are a few “trigger issues” (bird banding + a > couple of others) which arose passions and hence traffic with an > unfavourable signal to noise ratio. I am astounded that (eg) posting trip > reports has generating flaming responses, and am very sorry to learn that. > Nothing remotely like that has even happened to me (even when I defended my > cat ownership – a potential trigger issue). Some disagreement sure, but > nothing at all lacking in respect. > > So armed with my trusty delete button, I say “long live birding-aus”, and > thanks for the advice, expertise and good will I have experienced (and the > blogs with the fantastic photos: keep posting those links), and I’ll just > edit into electronic oblivion anything else. > > Kim >
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