While reading these links, I finally found something I can contribute if anyone is interested. I would be willing to build a collection report - website that allowed detailed reports to be entered either by paragraph or document upload including any images saved as .jpg or .gif. These reports could send an email to this list each time a new one was loaded so that everyone would be able to view them. All the info would be in a database so we could search it many ways.
The site could be customized as you want. I am not sure of the proper procedures to "link" with the NANFA organization, but I would be willing to build one as an interested observer and future member.
Jim Barbour - web / fish guy
The following message was sent by "William Hoppe" <whoppe_at_leadhill.net> on Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:37 -0500.
> I know this idea has been hashed around before but Ill bring it up again
> .
> What about a relatively simple sighting report area where the basic results
> of a collecting trip could be posted by state ? Name of fish , location
> ,
> date and maybe a very little more info . While clicking here and there
> some
> months ago I noticed both a butterfly and bird list with this sort of thing
> . They had more complex "count" lists also but just the more simple
> sighting thing would be nice to have .
> Bill Hoppe
> Yellville Arkansas
> A gathering of fish heads --its smelly but fun.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:18 AM
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- RE: nanfa V1 #1330
>
>
> > > 2. Long unbroken blocks of type such as this report you posted
> > > are difficult to browse through, and so I (and I suspect othes)
> > > tend to skip them. I would rather see reasonable paragraph breaks,
> > > and also would like to see the various specific locations and
> > > species names highlighed - perhaps in italics or bold type. See below.
> > > (Unfortunately, my e-mail program doesn't permit italics or bold type
> > > when replying, so I haven't included that feature.)
> >
> > I'd like to see all messages in French and Spanish also, for our fellow
> > North Americans to the north and south, but let's be grateful for what
> we
> > have and how we get it :-) We're all different. My email isn't set
> to
> > receive formatting when reading, and attempts at such formatting result
> in
> > messages with weird characters where the formatting is. (For example,
> Todd's
> > messages are a mishmash of lines all over my mail viewer.)
> >
> > --
> > Jay DeLong
> > Olympia, WA
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