NO COMMERCIAL POSTINGS ON REC.COLLECTING.BOOKS!

Rec.collecting.books is a forum for the discussion of issues relating to
book-collecting. Commercial postings are specifically prohibited. Post them
to alt.books instead.

Rec.collecting.books is an unmoderated newsgroup, so if people *do* make
commercial postings there is nothing we can do about it except let them know
how we feel and, in extreme cases, report them to their server.

From the FAQs (http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/rcb/):
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1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?
Want to buy ...
For sale ...
For auction ...
For trade ・/LI
Visit my commercial website.
A list of books for sale is available from ...
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The one concession is:
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1.6 How Do I Advertise My Cool Website?
Add the information below your "signature". It is considered rude to just
blurt out an ad, but if you join in the discussions people will see the
information, and be more interested in visiting as well.
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Thank you for your cooperation.


--
John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com

"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in message
...

1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?

Visit my commercial website.

http://rarebooksinjapan.com

fundoc wrote:
"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in
message ...

1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?

Visit my commercial website.

http://rarebooksinjapan.com

Why did you snip out all the bits of John's post that made it clear that
an unobtrusive pointer to a poster's sites or sales in a .sig is
acceptable, to make it appear as though he was violating the guidelines?
An on-topic post and a piece of drive-by spam are NOT one and the same.
If you want people to know about YOUR website, then post some
informative and on-topic items as part of a group conversation, with
your website information tucked away under the .sig. Then, if people
appreciate what you have to say, they might feel like visiting your
site.

Mike M
--
Xenocyte Books. The future is now.
eBay http://tinyurl.com/g1jt --- homesite www.xenocyte.com
World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow 2005.
http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/

"Mike McKeown" wrote in message
...

fundoc wrote:
"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in
message ...

1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?

Visit my commercial website.

http://rarebooksinjapan.com

Why did you snip out all the bits of John's post that made it clear that
an unobtrusive pointer to a poster's sites or sales in a .sig is
acceptable, to make it appear as though he was violating the guidelines?

Accuracy in media.


An on-topic post and a piece of drive-by spam are NOT one and the same.

Says you. Three quarters of the posts in here concern the best Ebay selling
practices. They have nothing to do with collecting. If ratty didn't ocassionally
repost the story about the time she got the crabs from Alice B Toklas in the
remainder room at City Lights I'd be constrained to unsubscribe.


If you want people to know about YOUR website, then post some
informative and on-topic items as part of a group conversation, with
your website information tucked away under the .sig. Then, if people
appreciate what you have to say, they might feel like visiting your
site.

Otay.


--
Fundoc

Selling as fundoc on ebay
Selling as fundoc on half.com
Selling as fundoc on abe.com

Hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction, nonfiction, first editions, book club editions,
readers digest condesations, anthologies, encyclopedias, dictionaries,
textbooks, cookbooks, newspapers (individually or by the ton), periodicals,
magazines (no National Geographics please!), comics, porn, ephemera, old
shopping lists, bought, sold, traded, bartered.

http://Ibuyandsellbooks.com

http://notacommercialsoliciation.com

Recently I was at a book signing by John Corbett (author of The Devil's
Redhead and Done for a Dime) and during the conversation he brought up a pet
theory of mine, that many successful American businessmen are complete
sociopaths. Keep your chin up fundoc, you could someday be a success.
However annoying your customer base (people like me that collect books) with
childlike whining about commercial posts. Your selfish desire to fatten
your bank account is not important to the rest of us. We do not see a need
to further corrupt rec.collecting.books with more commercial posts. You made
it to the short list of people I will not purchase from and I doubt you
inventory is rare enough that there is not literally hundreds of other
people that supply the same items at the same price. You know the rules,
play nice now before you tick off more nice people.

Now back on topic, does anyone know who won the Anthony Awards last week?

Tim Crawford


fundoc wrote in message
...

"Mike McKeown" wrote in message
...

fundoc wrote:
"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in
message ...

1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?

Visit my commercial website.

http://rarebooksinjapan.com

Why did you snip out all the bits of John's post that made it clear that
an unobtrusive pointer to a poster's sites or sales in a .sig is
acceptable, to make it appear as though he was violating the guidelines?

Accuracy in media.


An on-topic post and a piece of drive-by spam are NOT one and the same.

Says you. Three quarters of the posts in here concern the best Ebay
selling
practices. They have nothing to do with collecting. If ratty didn't
ocassionally
repost the story about the time she got the crabs from Alice B Toklas in
the
remainder room at City Lights I'd be constrained to unsubscribe.


If you want people to know about YOUR website, then post some
informative and on-topic items as part of a group conversation, with
your website information tucked away under the .sig. Then, if people
appreciate what you have to say, they might feel like visiting your
site.

Otay.


--
Fundoc

Selling as fundoc on ebay
Selling as fundoc on half.com
Selling as fundoc on abe.com

Hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction, nonfiction, first editions, book club
editions,
readers digest condesations, anthologies, encyclopedias, dictionaries,
textbooks, cookbooks, newspapers (individually or by the ton),
periodicals,
magazines (no National Geographics please!), comics, porn, ephemera, old
shopping lists, bought, sold, traded, bartered.

http://Ibuyandsellbooks.com

http://notacommercialsoliciation.com

"Tim Crawford" wrote in message
...

Recently I was at a book signing by John Corbett (author of The Devil's
Redhead and Done for a Dime) and during the conversation he brought up a pet
theory of mine, that many successful American businessmen are complete
sociopaths.

Funny, I had lunch with Corby -- that's what his friends calls him, Corby --
just the other day, and we discussed a pet theory of mine: that you're a moron.
Let's see how it plays out, shall we?


Keep your chin up fundoc, you could someday be a success.
However annoying your customer base (people like me that collect books) with
childlike whining about commercial posts.

So far, so good: egregious syntax and minimal reading comprehension skills;
we're in cretin territory. I didn't say anything about commercial posts, much
less "whining." Yamamoto whined about commercial posts; I quoted Yamamoto; some
other guy whined about my quote; I reminisced briefly about Gertrude Stein; and
now here you are whining about that. As far as I can see I'm the only one in the
entire thread that didn't whine.


Your selfish desire to fatten
your bank account is not important to the rest of us. We do not see a need
to further corrupt rec.collecting.books with more commercial posts. You made
it to the short list of people I will not purchase from and I doubt you
inventory is rare enough that there is not literally hundreds of other
people that supply the same items at the same price.

That's truly fascinating. Or would be, if I in fact had an inventory, or sold
books, or gave a flying intercourse about you, your opinion, your short list, or
anything other imbecility you might care to blather on about.


You know the rules,
play nice now before you tick off more nice people.

Ooooo. Brute.


--
Fundoc

Selling as fundoc on ebay
Selling as fundoc on half.com
Selling as fundoc on abe.com
Hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction, nonfiction, first editions, book club editions,
readers digest condesations, anthologies, encyclopedias, dictionaries,
textbooks, cookbooks, newspapers (individually or by the ton), periodicals,
magazines (no National Geographics please!), comics, porn, ephemera, old
shopping lists, bought, sold, traded, bartered.
http://Ibuyandsellbooks.com
http://notacommercialsoliciation.com


Now back on topic, does anyone know who won the Anthony Awards last week?

Tim Crawford


fundoc wrote in message
...

"Mike McKeown" wrote in message
...

fundoc wrote:
"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in
message ...

1.3 What Kind of Posts are Inappropriate?

Visit my commercial website.

http://rarebooksinjapan.com

Why did you snip out all the bits of John's post that made it clear that
an unobtrusive pointer to a poster's sites or sales in a .sig is
acceptable, to make it appear as though he was violating the guidelines?

Accuracy in media.


An on-topic post and a piece of drive-by spam are NOT one and the same.

Says you. Three quarters of the posts in here concern the best Ebay
selling
practices. They have nothing to do with collecting. If ratty didn't
ocassionally
repost the story about the time she got the crabs from Alice B Toklas in
the
remainder room at City Lights I'd be constrained to unsubscribe.


If you want people to know about YOUR website, then post some
informative and on-topic items as part of a group conversation, with
your website information tucked away under the .sig. Then, if people
appreciate what you have to say, they might feel like visiting your
site.

Otay.


--
Fundoc

Selling as fundoc on ebay
Selling as fundoc on half.com
Selling as fundoc on abe.com

Hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction, nonfiction, first editions, book club
editions,
readers digest condesations, anthologies, encyclopedias, dictionaries,
textbooks, cookbooks, newspapers (individually or by the ton),
periodicals,
magazines (no National Geographics please!), comics, porn, ephemera, old
shopping lists, bought, sold, traded, bartered.

http://Ibuyandsellbooks.com

http://notacommercialsoliciation.com