NJBirds Mailing List Information

March, 2002; rev. March 2006

Please bookmark this information in case you need to change or cancel your subscription in the future. The link is http://www.princeton.edu/~llarson/njb/njbirdstxt.html .

List purpose:

Disclaimer: NJBirds is a LISTSERV mailing list hosted at Princeton University. It is related to, and complemented by, the Jerseybirds LISTSERV mailing list hosted at Princeton. NJBirds is not a bird club. NJBirds is not connected in any way with commercial web sites at www.njbirds.com, www.jerseybirds.com, www.jerseybirds.co.uk, or www.newjerseybirds.com.

This list is used for the limited purpose of distributing occasional "breaking news" of NJBRC REVIEW LIST Species, between updates of the New Jersey Audubon Society birding hotlines. It also distributes these hotlines: the weekly New Jersey statewide "Voice of New Jersey Audubon, the Cape May Birding Hotline, and the Cape May Natural History and Events Hotline.

Contacts:

To report rarities for distribution to the NJBirds mailing list, Laurie Larson, llarson@princeton.edu AND Paul Lehman, lehman.paul@verizon.net.

If you need help with your subscription, and need to correspond with a "real person," please send e-mail to Laurie Larson, llarson@princeton.edu.

Your suggestions, comments, etc. are welcome and can be sent to either Laurie Larson, llarson@princeton.edu or Paul Lehman, lehman.paul@verizon.net.

NJBirds subscriptions are free and open to any interested birder. Subscribers cannot post to the list. The mailing list of subscribers' addresses is not open for public examination and is not shared, sold or distributed by the list owners.

NJBirds isn't for discussions, questions, etc. If you would like to belong to a list that welcomes reports of New Jersey sightings, discussion, trip reports, and information requests, please join the JerseyBirds mailing list, and/or the JERPENDEL mailing list.

The NJBirds list is "owned" (managed) by Laurie Larson, Paul Lehman, Jim Williams, and Jean Bickal, with the help and assistance of the New Jersey Audubon Society, the NJ Bird Records Committee, and many active NJ birders. NJBirds is hosted on Princeton University's LISTSERV processor. It is moderated, that is, the listowners post messages to the NJBirds list for distribution to all subscribers. They welcome your contributions for posting, if you have information about a REVIEW LIST species in New Jersey. To report, please send e-mail to Laurie Larson, llarson@princeton.edu, AND Paul Lehman,lehman.paul@verizon.net (Report to both in case one is out of town.)

The REVIEW LIST is available on the NJ Bird Records Committee web site.

Other species of interest (non-REVIEW LIST) should be reported to The New Jersey Audubon Society for use in the weekly hotlines or the quarterly Regional Field Notes. Report Cape May, Cumberland, and Atlantic county sightings to Mark Garland, Cape May Bird Observatory, 609/884-2736 or CapeMayReports@njaudubon.org. Report all other New Jersey sightings to Pete Bacinski or Scott Barnes, Sandy Hook Bird Observatory (732) 872-2500.

For full information on reporting birds in New Jersey, please see the Reporting page of the NJBRC.

Subscription instructions - e-mail

• If you want to subscribe, unsubscribe, or change addresses, you need to send a message to a computer "robot", or list processor, at this address: LISTSERV@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. Leave the subject of your message blank and include only the text given below in the body of the mail.
• To subscribe, send email to the list processor containing the command "subscribe NJBirds (your name)" for example:
  subscribe NJBirds Laurie Larson
• To cancel your subscription send email to the list processor containing the command
  unsubscribe NJBirds
  but do not include your name.
• If your address changes, you can unsubscribe (see above) while you still have login access to the old address, and re-subscribe with the new address. If that is not possible, send mail to Laurie Larson. Tell her you are an NJBirds subscriber (important!) and mention both addresses; she can make the change for you.
• If you need to TEMPORARILY stop getting mail from NJBirds, send email to the list processor containing the command set NJBirds nomail
• To resume getting mail after a temporary stop, send email to the list processor containing the command set NJBirds mail
• To get more information on how to use this service, send email to the list processor containing only the command HELP

Subscription instructions - web

• To join or leave the list, go to https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=njbirds&A=1
• To modify subscription settings via the web interface, you must get a list password to verify that it's really you making the changes. Go to https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?GETPW1=SUBED1=njbirds to set a password. Then you'll need to log on to email and click a link or reply to the listserve's email message to confirm yourself.
• Once you've set up a password, you can go to https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=njbirds and use the web interface to turn your mail on and off for vacations, as well as change your own address, and control other settings governing your subscription.

Archival and Bibliographic notes

The list messages for 1998 and 1999 are archived at http://www.princeton.edu/~llarson/njb/njbirdsarchive.htm You can use Princeton University's site-wide search engine, http://www.google.com/univ/princeton, to search these pre-2000 NJBIRDS archives. For best results use the species name.

List messages for 2000 to date are archived at https://lists.princeton.edu/listserv/njbirds.html with full LISTSERV searching available.

In addition, the NJAS birding hotlines are available in full text from about 1990, at the Society's Sightings page. There is a very useful species name search tool provided there. Since NJAS had not archived the texts, we were able to provide them from archives of the NBHC BirdEast LISTSERV mailing list and personal archives.

A web site which makes available the current NJBIRDS feed (and many others), is Jack Siler's Birding On the Net, one of the first and best web portals for birders.

Links