[rba] mou-rba maiing list

[Paul Budde]

I have some questions/thoughts.  I'd like this to work, but I'm trying
to think of what can go wrong.

1.  Under this design we will have some birders who only subscribe to
rba.  They will only get "notable" birds and presumably the rbas).  We
will have another set of people who subscribe to both and set mou-rba to
"no mail" to avoid double posts.   These people can post to either
listserve.  We will also have some who only subscribe to mou-net (for
simplicity's sake).  If such a person finds a bird to be posted to
mou-rba, he or she will either post to mou-rba and wait for someone to
approve it, or will just post it to mou-net.  I suspect that the latter
will happen (especially if they want to get the word out quickly).

2.  Where should these have been posted? Net or rba?

5/23 KEWA Scott (refind)
5/23 LEOW Hennepin 
5/22 LOWA Sibley
5/22 KEWA Scott (a refind, but the original post to mou-net)
5/22 NOMO St. Louis
5/20 BRAN St. Louis (one of many refind posts)
5/19 HUGO Nicollet
5/17 YBCH Freeborn
5/15 FEHA Big Stone
5/15 SUTA Cook
5/15 SUTA Aitkin
5/13 SUTA Lake
5/13 PALO St. Louis

Note that these are either "good" (but are they notable?) regular
species or refinds.  

3.  We can't assume that the subscribers know what birds are casual or
accidental, or that they will be willing to take the time to look them
up.

4.  A personal "FOY" doesn't belong on RBA, but what about a true FOY
for Minnesota?

5.  Should our overall guidance be "post anything on mou-rba that you
would otherwise call the RBA compiler about"?  And then we could follow
with some black and white suggestions and recognize that there is a lot
of gray in the middle?

In general, I think we need to cut people a LOT of slack regarding where
they choose to make a post (net or rba).

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: mou-rba-bounces at moumn.org [mailto:mou-rba-bounces at moumn.org] On
Behalf Of David A. Cahlander
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:17 PM
To: mou-rba at moumn.org
Subject: [rba] mou-rba maiing list

I've now set up a second mailing list.  The people subscribed are:

    david at cahlander.com
    birdnird at yahoo.com
    axhertzel at sihope.com
    paul.budde at us.benfieldgroup.com

I'd like to check the message sent out on subscription and make sure
that we 
agree about how this should be used.  I suggest that any "notable" bird
be 
posted to this listserv.  "notable" means to me

    casual
    accidental
    new state records
    rare regular (do we need a list)
    new county records

We will copy all messages from [rba] to [mou].  To post to [rba] you
need to 
subscribe to that list.  If you want messages from [mou], I suggest that
you 
subscribe to [rba] and set the nomail option.  Perhaps we need to make a

step-by-step proceedure for this subscription.

If someone posts to [mou] a "notable" bird, I think that we just repost
it 
to [rba].  Maybe we can even keep these from going back to [mou].  I'll
test 
that.

For now, only the four of us are subscribed and messages are not
forwarded 
to mou-net.

Any comments can be posted to the group or to mou-rba-owner at moumn.org.

Thanks.
---
David Cahlander david at cahlander.com Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910 


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