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 >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]