Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!claris!jake From: jake@claris.com (Char Fugel) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Contributions from Exotic Bird owners. Message-ID: <10580@claris.com> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:23:56 GMT References: <7995@cloud9.Stratus.COM> Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA Lines: 29 From article <7995@cloud9.Stratus.COM>, by mm@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Mike Mahler): > > Hi, > > About 2 months ago there was a big push to seperate bird > "OWNERS" from bird "WATCHERS" and to disallow entries from > bird "OWNERS" into this group and to point them instead to > rec.pets. It was said this was the original purpose of > rec.birds and I can understand that. > > It's not my attempt to try and stir up controversy again, > but I'd like to propose the creation of rec.birds.exotic > where exotic bird "WATCHERS" could converse with each other > and with exotic bird "OWNERS" (sorry, I don't like this > term, my Nape owns ME!). > > What do you all think? > > Michael > > > -- > "You kill what you fear and you fear what you don't understand..." > - Genesis Michael - Jake (my African Grey) and I agree wholeheartedly!! Char Fugel