[Rockhounds] netiquette topic

[Axel Emmermann]

Want a good example, Pete?

I found in my collection database a scheelite specimen labeled "Yxjöberget".

After some research the locality proved to be:
Yxsjöberg Mine, Yxsjö ore field, Ljusnarsberg, Västmanland, Sweden.
I admit that it is completely unpronounceable and if it were, it would
probably sound more like a hybrid between terminal cough and a speech
impediment than like a locality... Anyway, it supports your standpoint.

Furthermore, I recently got a question from someone who had found a
fluorescing mineral "somewhere". It took five e-mails back and forth to
extract from him the information about color, luster, fluorescent color,
phosphorescence color etc, that should have been given spontaneously.
You can't help people if they don't volunteer information about their
problem.

There should be some kind of questionnaire, a form, for people who need help
about minerals... Hey, why don't we make one?
As a tool, not as a rule ;-)))

Axel


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com 
> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens pmodreski at aol.com
> Verzonden: vrijdag 7 september 2007 17:48
> Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] netiquette topic
> 
> P.S., as Don said, I'm sure that there are a few of these 
> worldlike localities that can just be mentioned by "short 
> name" and almost everyone will know where they are, are such 
> as "Pikes Peak" or "Franklin" or "Tsumeb" or "the Red Cloud 
> mine" or "Newry" or "Bancroft".
> 
> But even then, it might be OK to mention them that way 
> casually in passing, but if really asking some serious 
> question about one, most of us would probably add at least 
> the state or country to clarify it so everyone would be 
> totally clear where we were at.? (And of course--I should 
> add--one still might regardless need to make clear if one 
> meant Franklin, NJ, or Franklin, North Carolina!)
> 
> Cheers to all,
> Pete
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Jokela Jr. <tjokela at execulink.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] netiquette topic
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "DonH" <donhalterman at verizon.net>?
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
> collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>?
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:17 PM?
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] netiquette topic?
> ?
> >?
> > There are a few localities in the mineral world that, like 
> Cher or > Madonna, don't need a more specific name; but for 
> the most part, we > shouldn't assume that everyone is 
> familiar with any particular locality, > and especially the 
> obscure ones.?
> >?
> > Don?
> >?
> >?
> >?
> 
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