swarm-list Mailing List: Re: Inappropriate use of swarm list

[Robert L Mathews (rob]

No, George isn't at fault here. I'm the one who blocked all future messages to that thread (there were many more that I blocked) at about the same time George posted.

The thread wasn't an appropriate use of the swarm notification list, and it should have originally been started on the Bee Talk group. Jerry just accidentally started it here instead of there, and it snowballed out of control.

The swarm notification list is intentionally separate from the Bee Talk group so that people can set urgent notifications on their devices when a swarm becomes available. Ironically, all the discussion caused two swarms to go unclaimed for hours because the messages were buried in all the other messages people weren't looking at.

As I told everyone who posted a followup message to the thread that was blocked, this can be discussed on the Bee Talk group. There's a thread for it here that everyone is welcome to contribute to:

Re: WHO Doesn't Have Bees, and wants them? What cities are you in? What prevents you from chasing swarms? groups.google.com

Not trying to shut down discussion; it just needs to be in the right place. Please continue to discuss this over there, not here.

Thanks!

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Robert L Mathews, ACBA President

On May 8, 2025, at 6:56 PM, Nick Ashwa via swarm-list <swarm-list [at] alamedabees.org> wrote:

George,

You just took the wind out of folks trying to volunteer and add to this initiative. 

Fwiw, the email thread, “ [ACBA Swarmlist] WHO Doesn't Have Bees, and wants them? What cities are you in? What prevents you from chasing swarms?” was created, presumably by an ACBA moderator, with the sole intent of collecting feedback regarding the swarm list, and how to use ACBA volunteers more effective. 

Regards,

Nick Ashwa