TN-Birders: Please take extra care to include the exact location of all sightings and birding locations in the body of the text of your postings. I realize that frequent readers and our best birding friends who bird the same locations may wonder why you are being so formal. But this is not an insider list for only those who are in "the know." I tried to ignore a few postings which were being laxed. However, it is beginning to mushroom. I honestly hate to see a truly fine and respected list like TN-Birds turn into a disaster like some state mailing list. Some of the lists out there are so bad you can hardly read them and get anything useful. Let's not become an embarrassment in the future. Do not expect a reader to use your subject line to remember what bird you are talking about in your body message. Do not expect them to search at the end of the message to see if you included enough information in your signature for them to figure out where you saw whatever you were posting. Try to think of those subscribers who are new to the list, new to your area, new to our state who are not insiders and are trying to benefit from our postings. Beacuse my birding friends and I all know a location by heart, it is still not justification that we do not need to fully inform others. A list of this size, covering such a very large, area needs to be friendly and useful to all. I have noticed that as one or two subscribers become lax, more and more tend to forget and our list becomes less friendly. Some of the state discussion groups are so bad you can't make any useful sense from all the insider information and generalizations which are posted. Some of our subscribers simply put a location name and county at the top of every message. Persons working along the borders with our many other states need to include the state abbreviation. That works well if you don't feel comfortable including it in your message text. Please do not depend on persons to capture the location simply from your subject line. Let's keep TN-Birds user freined and well structured for the benefit of all subscribers. Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Moderator, TN-Birds Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================