I agree completely Mary. I had to read and re-read Bill's post before I could glean what the others were complaining about--even then you needed to torture the meaning of every line to make out an offense.
Les Chambers
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From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of marys1000
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 7:28 AM
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Attack on listers
I'm with Bill. Seems over many years I've seen listers complain about being attacked or derided but have seen no attacks only over sensitivity.
Marie, Fairborn OH
On 3/25/2016 12:00 AM, OHIO-BIRDS automatic digest system wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Bill Whan<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> >Alex--
>> > Jeremy took offense at a few words I wrote a couple of days ago:
>> >"Awareness of such things is something the average lister often lacks,"
>> >referring to some interesting information Casey Tucker supplied to
>> >the list. You agree with him that my remarks were grievous put-downs
>> >of other birders: words he used included "sneak," "snide," "ludicrous,"
>> >"berating," and you used words like "pestering," "bringing down,"
>> >"flat out bad," "hostile and rude," "crazy," and "wrong."
>> > I don't know how to explain this. If I had written "birders"
>> >instead of
>> >"listers" might the reaction might have been less venomous? Are my
>> >contributions to this list so offensive to so many readers? I think
>> >I have made many contributions to the study of Ohio birds, and I
>> >don't think I've used any of the words quoted above, but their use
>> >by others makes me reconsider participating in this forum.
>> >Bill Whan
>> >Columbus
>> >
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