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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    No argument about the process, it is the 'elected' leadership that decides and then informs the troops. Still, I don't think the leaders are worse than the members, so on a 'much cry, little wool' issue such as nomenclature, I'd let them be.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    The skeptic in me takes the view that this 'middle ground' would simply perpetuate and probably envenom the strife over the issue. I'm certain that there are stains in everyone's ledger, deciding which are acceptable would task a modern day Solomon. Better to have one decision, remove personal...
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