Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Parrot Postings Message-ID: <35652@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 14:14:24 EST Article-I.D.: sun.35652 Posted: Sat Dec 5 14:14:24 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 06:41:09 EST References: <9047@utzoo.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Fictional Reality, uLtd Lines: 47 >I fail to see why you feel that this newsgroup is appropriately named >for parrots ... at least more appropriate than for its original intent, >namely "bird watching". Original intent tends to have very little power on the net. What really matters is what the current readers want to use the group for. I find all of this rather amusing, actually -- the group is pretty low volume, and I think there's more than enough room in it for everyone. >You feel that >"parrot-people" have some special status carved in stone that they may >post their tremendous insight into the world of birds but that >people who wish to see the news restricted to its original purpose >should create their *own new* group. Your comments, of course, imply the same about the bird watchers. But then, God is on their side (by definition, since you are on their side). >Since this group was created for people interested in bird-watching As I said, original intent really means nothing. And as a completely silly aside, I have to watch my cockatoo constantly. If I don't, she eats the panelling. Does that mean I qualify on either side? >I would like to conduct an informal >poll. How many people would like to see this group remain for the >bird-watchers and how many would like to talk about the fascinating world >of staring at caged, constipated budgies? >I realize that the results will >be biased Um, biased in more ways than one... >I have one other question that has been troubling me. What the devil is >a *domestic (non-pet) parrot*? A domestic non-pet parrot is anything that used to be a pet and is no longer (or is the progeny of same). They're all over the place, if you just knew where to look...... (As another silly aside, there is this flock of crows near my mothers house that occasionally raids her fig tree. Its leader happens to be an umbrella cockatoo. THAT's an amusing site, to say the least. --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ