People should report their sightings to MOU and be comfortable about it. Any bird seen in MN is perfectly ok to post, or questions about ID. I believe the moderators wish to direct interpersonal messages not directly involved with birds in Minnesota away form the list serve. I am not saying that from any official position, but rather from my participation and observations of this list server. Beginners, I would hope, should be made very welcome here, I always enjoy reading and responding to their posts. Mnbird serves a very specific purpose, focusing primarily on the SE MN birding community, with many subscribers from all over MN, yet if you read MOU for the sightings and do not share what you see with that community, then it seems to me everyone loses. Please subscribe to both for as while and post to both for a while and see if you do not benefit from the exchange. There are a thousand readers of MOU-net, please allow the silent majority of those to benefit from your participation, and if a moderator calls out posts that do not meet the parameters for posting, just move ahead with the understanding that it is really no big deal, we are just trying to keep the list focused on bird sightings in MN. It is kind of like being called out of bounds in basketball, no big deal, just understand where the boundary is and stay inside of it. Please do not take it s a character judgment, it is simply due diligence the moderators feel is necessary.
Go birding and let us know what you see, and if you do not wish to post it, at least enter it into the seasonal birding program on the MOU website. The MOU is the official state repository for seasonal bird sightings, so use us for what we are in existence for. Join whatever other groups you want, but stays linked to the centralized communication the MOU offers, and stay active both in reading and posting. And by the way, don't forget to go birding! I wish you all good birding. Mark Alt Brooklyn Center Member of both Mnbird and MOU-net ________________________________ From: mnbird-boun...@lists.mnbird.net [mailto:mnbird-bounces at lists.mnbird.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Maiello Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:09 PM To: mou-net at moumn.org; mnbird to submit messages Subject: [mnbird] Re: [mou] purpose of mou-net I have always felt like I was testing something when I posted on MOU - like I was doing something that bordered on wrong because I struggle just reporting lists or a bird without my story about it. I think I will begin only posting on MnBird. Seems like a more comfortable fit. I will continue to monitor MOU for hot spots but will attempt to only tell of a bird sighting there. How does that sound? Or am I totally off base? Thomas Maiello Angel Environmental Management, Inc. Maple Grove, MN On May 5, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Anderson, Diane M. [RO X-RAY] wrote: You can always post sightings to the original Minnesota Birding listserv -MnBird - in fact the newsy, day list kind of stuff should go to that list instead of MOUnet which is supposed to be for MOU business and more unusual sightings. You can find the MnBird link (plus other good stuff) at www.birding-minnesota.com. Perhaps if that were offered as an alternative originally we could be reading about hooded warblers instead of people's hurt feelings. Diane M. Anderson RT(R) Medical Imaging Technical Services Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic Rochester (507) 266-8504 anderson.diane at mayo.edu --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. Mailing list membership available on-line at http://moumn.org/subscribe.html. ----- To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org with a subject of unsubscribe. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080505/e078b497/attachment-0001.html
