Hi,

15 years ago was back when Vic owned the list and actively moderating it to
stay within the allowed subjects.  The discussion could be pretty wide
ranging as it related to wild birds including habitat and conservation and
or birding in Ohio and the immediately adjacent contiguous geography.  From
my perspective it was more oriented toward general ornithology, and
sometimes acceptable discussions got pretty wide ranging and very
interesting.  The sorts of thing that draws complaints and hate mail today.

Today the list is mostly about reporting sightings and has little lively
discussion about habitat or ecology. Most of the fun has been sucked out of
it by those with commercial interests, and those afraid of critical posts
perhaps having an adverse effect on fundraising efforts.

As a result of the above you seldom or never see much that involves
discussion of any topic that might be controversial, and when there is the
responses tend to be thin skinned.

Those are my observations based upon 20 years or so of being a subscriber
and contributor.

Haans


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Subject: Evolution of this list
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:31:29 -0400
> From: Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Without commenting much about them, I attach an old slice of posts to
> this list from about 15 years ago. I would be interested to hear what
> readers--folks who wrote and read during those years, and those who have
> done so only recently--think about them.  I would be interested what
> folks think about how posts to ohiobirds have changed since then,
> perhaps some ideas about why, and if you think the exchange about
> knowledge and news has changed, and if so how. Read them and see...
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020627225530/http://aves.net/archives
> /default.htm
>
> Bill Whan
>
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