Re: It is a common gull
Phil Davis (pdavis@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:20:24 -0500
Jeez ...
I've got to jump in here ... Norm, you are off base. Do not confuse the
"MD/DC Records Committee" with individuals who may nor may not be current
or past members of the committee. This is America ... any person is
entitled to express his/her opinion. The Committee, however, only speaks
through its deliberative process. The message that "set you off" does not
even contain the phrase "records committee". Furthermore, it appears to be
a debate between two people, neither of which are current members of the
committee.
The committee, as Harvey stated in his message of a few days ago, has not
even received a submission of a putative Common Gull, much less deliberated
and arrived at a decision.
Please do not add more fuel to this fire. Please leave the records
committee out of this discussion.
Phil Davis
Secretary, MD/DC Records Committee
At 11:13 PM 02/20/1998 -0500, you wrote:
(snip)
>I feel I've learned a tremendous amount during this discussion about
>looking critically at a bird, about defining the parameters of the
>research that must be carried out, and about presenting one's opinion
>to the powers that be--the records committee.
>
>Is Bruce Peterjohn's personal attack on Mark Hoffman typical of the
>way that such submissions are handled by the MD/DC Records Committee?
>If so, I can see why you may have trouble getting people to submit
>their thoughts to you.
>
(snip)
>
>I've never submitted any notes to the records committee...after
>hearing how they're received, how responses to opinions become
>personal vendettas, I probably never will.
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