After being offline for a couple of weeks I was interested to see how much spam had accumulated in my Birding-NZ email account. 798 messages were correctly...
Hi Niel I dont seem to have a problem with spam. Gmail filters spam but only in the order of 5 per week. Lucky me I spose. On another note. I had posted...
Shane McPherson
shane.mcpherson@...
Apr 3, 2008 4:02 am
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Wow, they don't come any harder than these! Just got back from another two and a half days on site, following Tim's latest report. No sign. That gets my...
Hi Shane, OSNZ conference is in Kaikoura this year and we are running boat -trips [3] on Sun and Mon 1st and 2nd June. Maybe this is why you aren't getting a...
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Apr 3, 2008 4:11 am
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Hi Neil Yes, same here. But you and I must have poor Service Providers. I've noticed that most other people don't have a problem. I'm a member of several...
Hi all, Well glad to see the rarities stayed away until I returned. However, they weren't showing their faces today. Spent approximately 4 hours at ...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Apr 3, 2008 5:12 am
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Hi, I don't seem to have a great problem with spam thankfully. I'm quite grateful not to have to trawl through dozens of messages though all giving the same or...
Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Apr 3, 2008 6:05 am
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I do not have much problem with spam, so it must be a server thing at your end. I agree that it is good to get the answers to any queries on the forum. David...
David
lawrie@...
Apr 3, 2008 7:19 am
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For a while when XTRA started their awful 'bubble' thing most Birding-NZ stuff ended up in the spam basket, but now most of it arrives in my intray, but I...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Apr 3, 2008 9:24 am
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Ditto. Up to 100 daily in the in tray. I'm thinking of leaving XTRA. Gillian ... From: David Melville To: BIRDING-NZ@yahoogroups.com ; Neil Fitzgerald ; David ...
gillian.pollock
gillian.pollock@...
Apr 3, 2008 10:20 am
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I only got 13 spam in the last 2 weeks with xtra Adrian ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Adrian Riegen
riegen@...
Apr 3, 2008 10:35 am
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I thought I would go nuts after the unasked for 'adjustments' Xtra did when they brought in the 'Bubbles" and changed things around with Yahoo The inbox was...
No spam with Clear, and great deals for "free" phone calls too! Make the switch! I'm glad I did Bev [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I can confirm Bev's experience with Clear or the Paradise version of it. I also use Mozilla Thunderbird which is available free off the net. No spam! James Lee...
Hi We're with xtra & get nearly 400 correctly identified spam per day in our trash or spam folders. We have only had a couple of non spam incorrectly dumped...
... Ihug also has very good spam filtering. We get the very occasional letter from a wealthy Nigerian, and I almost never bother checking the filtered mail,...
David Riddell & Annet...
Number8@...
Apr 4, 2008 1:59 am
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Associated Press South Korea Confirms Deadly Bird Flu Apr 3 2008 4:01pm EDT The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has broken out in South Korea for the first time...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Apr 4, 2008 3:14 am
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Next release: "This comes just days after confirmation that Bar-tailed Godwits from New Zealand have arrived in Korea..." :-) Did you notice the 265 farms...
Battley, Phil
P.Battley@...
Apr 4, 2008 3:19 am
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So godwits watching has never been so save; out of the country and...on the television: Sunday April 6 at 7.10pm on TV ONE X-treme Flyers The bar-tailed...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Apr 4, 2008 3:39 am
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I have just received a report from David Trail of a NZ Falcon flying over Auckland city at 610pm last night. Flying over Pitt St/Hobson Street corner kek...
David
lawrie@...
Apr 4, 2008 8:21 am
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We receive very little junk mail but strangely quite a few of the groups emails end up in our delete folder, so each day I always check. If youy have a message...
Hi, We plan to have the next banding session at the Zoo next Saturday 12 April. We will follow the usual format I will get there about 8 am and start putting...
Ruth & Peter Reese
ruth.peterr@...
Apr 6, 2008 9:12 am
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Hi, Sorry about the mass e-mail to the group about the banding, it was meant to go to my Bird Banding group not Birding-NZ. Cheers, Peter _____ From:...
Ruth & Peter Reese
ruth.peterr@...
Apr 6, 2008 9:39 am
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Sounds like server-side filters take care of most of the spam before people see it. I have good scanners running on all incoming mail so virtually all of it...
Dear all, I noticed this article on deformed (excessively long) beaks found in birds in North America. Are there any signs of this occurring in NZ? We get some...
donapeacock@...
Apr 7, 2008 6:44 pm
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Hi, I have had a few birds over the year with deformed beaks, white-faced heron and a sparrow spring to mind oh yes two little blue penguin too. All brought in...
Rosemary Tully
rosemarytully@...
Apr 7, 2008 7:09 pm
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Hi Again, I spent 5 hours at the site yesterday and there was no sign of the Owl. It hasn't been seen now for about 10 days so looks like we will add it to the...
Ruth & Peter Reese
ruth.peterr@...
Apr 7, 2008 10:51 pm
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Has anyone got moving footage of Fairy Terns - a request from a Maori Television broadcaster has come to me, presumably as I'm on the OSNZ website as a slide...
Paul Cuming
birdo@...
Apr 8, 2008 11:44 am
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Hi everyone, I am planning out a trip to the North Island from June 18th to roughly the first week of July. (Request for advice to follow) Some of you are...
Hi All, We have had the unusual occurrence of 3 Barn Owl all at one site in rural Kaitaia. I managed to capture one of the owl which had recently injured its...