Repost: RCC FAQ

[Reposted twice monthly for the edification of the unenlightened]
[Source: Previous postings by David Ryan]

charter at http://babyurl.com/hi8s25
FAQ index at http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq.html
FAQ details at http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html
FAQ updates to Chuck D'Ambra

See below for highlights and direct links to many of your
numismatic (coin-related) questions.

Preliminaries:

1.A. DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
1.B. DO NOT TROLL

2. HOW DO I **NOT** GET MY QUESTION ANSWERED OR MY COIN IDENTIFIED
Ý AND GET SUBJECTED TO ^^^FLAMES^^^ AND VARIOUS HUMILIATIONS INSTEAD?

Often this results from posting a binary or picture attachment.
In REC.COLLECTING.COINS, as a text only newsgroup, such attachments
push a lot of legitimate messages off many servers. They also cost
some users money to download before they know of the attachment.
It is best to put your image on a freeserver, or in our companion
binary newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.numismatic, and post a
link to it here that knowledgeable and interested subscribers can
choose to follow and render a helpful opinion. And they usually do.

If you post your image to alt.binaries.pictures.numismatic,
do not crosspost it to RCC or any other text newsgroup. Follow
directions in the charter and post your question or comment in the
text group with directions or a link to your image.

Also allow time for a response. This is not a chat room and it may
take a day or more depending on the issue involved. Contentious
follow-ups minutes or hours after the original post have been foci
for much comedy and little information. Check back to the newsgroup
for responses. Requests for e-mail responses will not generally be
honored except for commercial offers, personal information and the
like.

3. HOW DO I POST SELL OR BUY OFFERS THAT OFFEND AND ANTAGONIZE
ANY AND ALL POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND CAUSE MY BUSINESS PRACTICES
TO BE MOCKED AND RIDICULED?

One good way is to leave the commercial ad prefixes such as
FS: (for sale), FA: (for auction), WTB: (wanted to buy) etc.
off of the subject header. (See T...@pic #1 below.) This works
especially well if you misrepresent your own website or auction
as someone else's.

Another good way to lose customers is to make multiple or separate
postings for items. You should combine as much into one posting
as possible and adhere to the guidelines in the referenced FAQ.

This is a ZERO TOLERANCE NOSPAM newsgroup.

THANK YOU

-- TOP *10* TOPICS --
for newbies and casuals
1. Netiquette - no picture attachments (post URL),
Ý Ý FA FS WTB WTT etc. for buying/selling
Ý Ý Ý http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#NEWSGROUPS
2. What is my coin worth?
3. Two-headed or two-tailed coins
4. 1943 copper cents
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq.html#WORTH
5. What to collect
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#WHAT
6. DO NOT clean your coins
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#CLEAN
7. Grading (in general)
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#GRAD
8. Certification services
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#SLAB
9. Investment risks
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#RISKS
10 Paper money (go to news:rec.collecting.paper-money)
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html#NEWSGROUPS

ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.NUMISMATIC Charter:

For coins, tokens, medals, currency etc.

This newsgroup is for the posting of numismatic and related images
(coins, tokens, medals, currency and "exonumia") for identification
and analysis in discussion newsgroups such as rec.collecting.coins,
rec.collecting.paper-money, uk.rec.collecting.coins etc. Discussion
should be limited in this newsgroup. It is preferable to set
followups to one of the discussion groups and post a followup
with a link news:message-id back to the binary article.
Multimedia should be posted to a multimedia newsgroup. Off-topic
material, advertising (spam), flooding, cancel attacks, virus infected
binaries and abusive crosspostings are prohibited.
The newsgroup is unmoderated.

In article ,
Wolley Segap wrote:

[Reposted twice monthly for the edification of the unenlightened]
[Source: Previous postings by David Ryan]

charter at http://babyurl.com/hi8s25
FAQ index at http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq.html
FAQ details at http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html
FAQ updates to Chuck D'Ambra

Thanks for posting this info (and to David Ryan, et.al. for doing so
previously). However, the amount of spam finding its way to my mailbox
has more than doubled since the above FAQ updates line was added.
Spammers long ago figured out that removing REMOVE often produces a
valid e-mail address. Please change the line to something like
suggested FAQ updates should be posted to the group
(there haven't been very many anyway).

--

Chuck D'Ambra
web site address: www.telesphere.com
remove the upper case letters if replying by e-mail

In article ,
Chuck D'Ambra wrote:

Please change the line to something like
suggested FAQ updates should be posted to the group
(there haven't been very many anyway).

Done!