I’ve seen that format on some Birdlines.
But I’m not aware of Birdlines being collated from, for example, birding-aus postings. In that case, fully acknowledging the source is more complicated. Perhaps a link to the original posting in the archives should be added.
Peter Shute
Personally I’d expect either no acknowledgement of the source or a very brief one in an SMS if there’s room, certainly not a URL. SMSs longer than 160 characters go as two or more messages. Most phones assemble them back into a single message upon receipt, but a few don’t, so short messages are desirable from more than a cost point of view.
On the blog, I’d expect to see a link back to the archives, because on the web it’s general practise to direct traffic back to the site one has copied material from. The original email itself isn’t linkable, so the archived version is the next best thing.
Peter Shute