I wanted to comment on two issues that have come up on our listserv. Please do NOT reply to the list on these, but feel free to respond to me directly. First, we have received several spam posts in recent weeks. They all appear to be the result of legitimate list members being the victim of viruses which have been installed on their computers. There is no way we can prevent messages like this from going out, short of moving to a "moderated" list – i.e., having each post approved by an administrator before it goes out to the list. And that's way more work than this volunteer wants to take on. The second issue is that you may have noticed that no posts went out from late yesterday until early this afternoon, and that there was then a small flood of posts. This was the result of our exceeding our limit of 50 posts per day. Our list is hosted, FREE, by Miami University, and this is a limit which their software imposes. When the limit was exceeded, subsequent posts were blocked until I read my email this afternoon, found out about the block, and cleared it. Looking at the volume of posts from yesterday, most of them (with the exception of an exchange about Audubon's birds on Google) were on topic. But we have 1,345 list members now, and during migration, that many people can produce a lot of messages. I would just ask that, before posting your message, please think about whether it will likely be interesting to a large percentage of our members. -- -- Ned Keller [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]