Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!patth From: patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: rec.wildlife or rec.econet=-ecology Message-ID: <2098@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 07:40:11 EST Article-I.D.: dasys1.2098 Posted: Sun Nov 29 07:40:11 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 23:17:10 EST References: <2039@dasys1.UUCP> <18737@bbn.COM> Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 67 Summary: misc.wildlife rec.wildlife, rec.nature In article <18737@bbn.COM>, cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes: > > Here's one **enthusiastic** vote in favor of broadening the group. > I'd _love_ for there to be a wildlife group. Considering the volume > on rec.birds, I don't think changing the name to something like > "rec.wildlife" is all that unreasonable (but to do that we'ed probably > have to get the net.powers involved, do an "official" vote, junk like > that). Are any of the rest of you real wildlife-people reading this > group 'cause it is as close as usenet gets? > > /Bernie\ > Bernie Cosell, Max Hauser, Sharon Badian and others (like me) who are interested in wildlife/ecology/animal rights, etc. *thank you* most sincerely for your consideration re: rec.wildlife; perhaps we should leave rec.birds to the bird enthusiasts - the flames I've been getting in email just aren't worth ruffling any feathers [no pun intended]. Eric Woodsworth runs a mailing list: wildnet, wildreq and perhaps those subscribers would also be in favor of creating a new newsgroup rather than renaming/expanding rec.birds. Since I was not on the *net* when rec.birds was created, I apologize to the chap who sent email to me saying that I should work for a new newsgroup, i.e., rec.wildlife rather than applying my efforts to expand the discussion in rec.birds with posting information about ecology and domestic birds. For those of you who would like to subscribe to the wildnet mailing list, send your subscription requests to: ...alberta!sask!wildnet-request or wildreq@sask.bitnet I'd really like the dataline number for Earth Island BBS if someone can email it to me along with any other wildlife/ecology/ animal rights systems you might be familiar with. Isn't it rather ironic to think that ecological issues do not belong in rec.birds? Aren't birds affected by ecological destruction, deforestation, acid rain? I'll volunteer to collect VOTES for a WILDLIFE.ECOLOGY newsgroup so you can send your email to me - do *not* post to the net; any of you who have posted YES votes to the net please resend them to me in email. We can discuss what to call the newsgroup once I've collected the required 100 votes to do so. P.S. To the person who wanted to subscribe to rec.horses, there's a new newsgroup for you: rec.equestrian. ;-) -- Patt Haring {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Big Electric Cat Public UNIX {bellcore,harpo,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!patth New York, NY USA UUCP: patth@dasys1.UUCP 1-212-879-9031 -- Patt Haring UUCP: ..cmcl2!phri!dasys1!patth Big Electric Cat Compu$erve: 76566,2510 New York, NY, USA MCI Mail: 306-1255; GEnie: PHaring (212) 879-9031 FidoNet Mail: 1:107/701 or 107/222