From: John E III Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
 
            Maybe some experience from another area would be helpful on this topic.
 
            Over on the model-railroad newsgroup they talk quite unabashedly about
        mail-order vendors.
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More experience from another area:
On the exotic-pet-bird newsgroup and listserv, there are all KINDS of
people, it is much less professional than this group and more chatty.
 
There is very bad feeling about the use of the Internet
among some bird hobbyists and breeders
because it is easy to damage the reputation of an aviary without
good cause. One customer claiming they bought a bird from place X
that was sick or soemthing will make many other readers decide not to
take any chances with that place and buy somewhere else.  When in
reality there may or may not be a problem, but the breeder is
"convicted without a trial" by gossip.
 
This is all I meant about being careful that what you say is fair.
It looks as though people on this group are being much more
conservative than on the bird group.
 
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Liz Day
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Indianapolis, Indiana, central USA