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- From: aforsten@aton.abo.fi (Annika Forsten INF)
- Subject: Re: The American Birding Association
- In-Reply-To: drintoul@matt.ksu.ksu.edu's message of 13 Nov 1992 14:52:38 -0600
- Message-ID: <AFORSTEN.92Nov16121314@aton.abo.fi>
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- Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:13:14 GMT
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- In article <1e14imINNgn7@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> drintoul@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (David A Rintoul) writes:
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- Daan writes:
-
- > >It is a common phenomenon in this country that non-listers sneer at
- > >listers. Don't let it worry you. More seriously, however, non-listers
- > >insinuate that listers are interested in listing to the exclusion of
- > >everything else, which is a vicious libel.
-
- Ok, I won't let it worry me, but I must admit that I put up all defences
- against those who think listers do nothing else. I wonder where on earth
- they got that idea. Not many people are interested in one thing and one
- thing only.
-
- Dave writes:
-
- > Hoping to stay away from anything remotely resembling sneering
- > or insinuation, I humbly point out that we probably all know
- > people who are indeed, " interested in listing to the exclusion of
- > everything else". That is a truth, not a vicious libel.
-
- So how many do you know? How big a percentage is it of all the people
- interested in birds that you know?
-
- I don't think I know more that perhaps one, who started to twitch counties
- when he more or less ran out of birds. But he started out as a birder when
- young.
-
- annika forsten, finland
- aforsten@aton.abo.fi
-