Date: 12/31/25 5:16 am From: Geoffrey Hill via groups.io <hillgee...> Subject: [ALbirds] No censorship of sightings on ALbirds
Hi Everyone,
I’m the administrator of the ALbirds site. I got this job because we lost our old Yahoo site while I was AOS president and something had to be done. Apparently, once you take on a job like this, it is a job for life.
There is no censorship of sightings on ALbirds. If anyone had posted the coordinates of the owl, the message would have gone out. No one did, so there was not notification. I wish I had known about it.
ALbirds is set up so that the first time you post to the group, I must approve the post. This keeps us from being spammed or abused in other ways by outside elements. It also means that if you have never posted then there can be a delay in the release of your message. I only get a few requests to authorize posts per year now (most users are already approved), so I almost never go in to check for pending messages. The notices that I have pending messages have a tendency to go to my junk box, so some posts have been delayed by a week or more. If you are an active birder in the state and have never posted, I encourage you to post something—just write “activation note”. I’ll approve it, and the next time you post it will go straight to the group.
The one rule that I’ve imposed is that you must identify yourself. No anonymous posts. And don’t assume we know who you are by your email <Ilovebirds...> or by the context—“following up on what Andrew and I reported last week…"
Your devoted listserv administrator. Geoff Hill, Auburn
