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

[gene at fossilnut.com]

Since he apparently didn't die this only qualifies for honorable mention on 
the Darwin Awards.Nonetheless I would love to have a reference or an article 
on this it it hit the news.
Gene Hartstein
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From: "Mr EMan" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" 
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] "list where the knowledge of many is shared 
freely"


> Earn it? Maybe, but the unrestricted Internet is a too broad and too
> uncontrolled medium to share such hard earned knowledge upon.  The life
> expectancy of a collecting site is under a month when published on the
> Internet owing to predation by unscrupulous, Obsessive-Compulsive
> collectors with no moral reservations about entry into closed areas,
> and those who think getting permission is only for others.  The result
> is the site is closed to all.  So it is a bit futile in the first place
> to share the info.
>
> I can think of 3 sites that were closed for a long time owing that
> someone "snuck" in and used dynamite to loosen up the overburden--Yah
> Right!  Hummm...Wasn't there a report of one such person who trespassed
> into a quarry over a weekend to be found by the owners Monday morning.
> Seems he tried to drop a wall and succeeded in dropping the whole ledge
> the road was on.  He might have made it out but Mr Brilliant parked on
> the far side of his blasting experiment. I wonder if they gave him his
> truck back or if it is still there on the ledge as a testament to
> stupidity.
>
> As to the question at hand, I think it is more prudent to share person
> to person when one has had a chance to assess if the "sharee" is the
> type of person you would hunt with or give the keys to your car to.  If
> not, then be vague or inform them that it is by invitation only and
> invites are impossible to come by.
>
> ON THE OTHER HAND--I believe there should be a depository for site
> descriptions as much of mineral and fossil sites are the foundation for
> shopping malls and subdivisions. Three of the prolific fossil sites I
> was working last year are now gone.
>
> Eman
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