[Rockhounds] "list where the knowledge of many is shared freely"

[Tim Fisher]

If you can wait until after Christmas, yes it is, since I believe 
even the USPS won't guarantee Priority Mail will be delivered by 
then. Now I want to put "AD" in the subject line lol. It used to be 
free, but then the negative nellies found it and just wouldn't leave 
me alone. I discovered that they will never, ever, pay for something 
to complain about it, and voila! The CD was born! And no, they 
weren't all from LA. Seems that central/eastern Oregon & southern 
Idaho are also hotspots of negativism, since I still get the 
occasional bashing email from there from someone who has "heard of" 
or "seen" the CD. A particularly infamous email warned that I and my 
Mt Hood Rock Club "cronies" would suffer unspecified dire 
consequences if we were caught on any of this person's "claims" (he 
had and currently has no legal claims listed in the BLM database). 
That's the attitude I was referring to, BTW. How would you like to be 
a newbie and get threatened with bodily harm if you chose to dig 
rocks in a place that someone else didn't want you to dig in?

At 06:06 AM 12/21/2007, you wrote:
>Don't you already do that?
>
>What Tim is too modest to state is that he provides sites, maps, GPS cords,
>directions and tips on where to dig the better/good sites.
>
>Check out his website: http://orerockon.com/ and his CD of rock hunting
>sites is the best deal out there for rock hunting. At his current price (is
>the holiday special still on?) it is the next best thing to freely sharing
>(with a strict definition of free). I, an Easterner who occasionally spends
>large sums of money to drive west for collecting, considers Tim's CD
>indispensable.
>
>Also check out Gary's masmils database; available on Ebay.
>
>Some states (Utah comes to mind) and colleges provides lots of information
>about collecting sites.
>
>Ted Kowalski
>Fredericksburg, VA USA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
>[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Tim Fisher
>Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:33 AM
>To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
>Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] "list where the knowledge of many is shared
>freely"
>
>That's a bizarre debate. Sounds like the smog is getting a little
>thick down in SoCal. Greed and selfishness is killing this already
>dying hobby. Sharing collecting sites makes sense if only from a
>survivalist perspective; if everything was kept secret, what would
>newcomers to the hobby do? Spend years tracking down new places to
>find rocks, fossils, minerals etc.? Wrong. They would get
>disillusioned and find something else to do with their spare time. I
>have seen it happen, in fact this "hoarder" mentality has caused the
>death of some of the local rock clubs. You can only tell someone "no"
>a few times before they get the hint and go away for good. Maybe I
>will Join LA Rocks just to post a few hundred pairs of GPS coords I
>have for CA collecting sites :D
>
>At 06:33 PM 12/20/2007, you wrote:
> >PawPawTiger  said Rockhounds is a "list where  the knowledge of many is
> >shared freely". A furious debate is raging on the  LARocks
> >discussion group about
> >sharing the locations of places to collect rocks  and minerals at,
> >and I'd like
> >to see some opinions of the rockhounds on  this list.  Do you think
> >rockhounds should share the location of collection  sites, or should
> >people have to
> >earn the right to this knowledge by going out  first with someone
> >else?  Is the
> >knowledge of a collecting site  "intellectual property", and thus should be
> >paid for?  Is it wrong to post  GPS coordinates for others to
> >use?  I'd sure like
> >to hear what you have to  say.
> >

Tim Fisher
Ore-ROCK-On!
Email address at http://OreRockOn.com