Re: [SBB] More than birds on the list... (was Re: Henry Coe

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

I sorta fall in Chuq's professional category...

Thanks to this list, I've discovered where to photograph a few 
species I wouldn't have easily found on my own. And you've given me a 
few article ideas too. Thanks to everyone for being great 'native guides'!

(And it's the pits the Sharks blew a two-goal lead last night. There, 
that's as OT as I'll get!)


At 10:52 PM 5/12/2006, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>On May 12, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Garth Harwood wrote:
>
>>Michael's inclusion of a few butterfly sightings may be a good 
>>precedent for the list, at least for this season. Although we 
>>surely don't want to set a precedent of wandering very far 
>>off-topic (this list's tight birding focus being what makes it so 
>>valuable), nonetheless, I'm sure many of us enjoy spotting 
>>butterflies and dragonflies through our optics as well.
>
>I think that while we should try to stay on focus for the most part, 
>in our years of running groups like this, Laurie and I have come to 
>feel that what binds a community together isn't the strictly 
>on-topic postings themselves, but the "side chatter" that tends to 
>creep in over time. We all are here because of a common interest: 
>what turns us into a community (instead of a group of people reading 
>the announcements on a bulletin board somewhere) is where we find 
>commonallities and differences. At the extreme, for the last few 
>years we ran it, our San jose Sharks list was really "stuff talked 
>about by people who all happen to be Sharks fans", as opposed to 
>being a "hockey list" -- which was a lot more fun than just talking hockey.
>
>On the other hand, you have to be careful that the chatter doesn't 
>drive out the primary content. It can certainly take on a life of 
>its own. On this list, especially, that'd be a bad thing, since the 
>data found here is in many ways a single source (you can't go to 
>another list to get it) and both time sensitive and really important 
>to folks (both professional and not).
>
><snip>

Mark Bohrer
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www.precision-copywriting.com
(408) 866-9405

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