Replied: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:36:25 EDT Replied: "kamins@dogeared.com (Scot Kamins) " From news@nntp1.best.com Mon Sep 9 14:22:21 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id OAA07628; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 14:22:20 -0400 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21314; Mon, 9 Sep 96 14:21:27 EDT Received: from nntp1.best.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: nntp1.best.com [206.86.0.12]) id QQbgll15618; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 14:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (news@localhost) by nntp1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id LAA19487; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:21:24 -0700 To: news-answers@uunet.uu.net Path: kamins From: kamins@dogeared.com (Scot Kamins) Newsgroups: rec.collecting.books,news.answers Subject: [REPOST] rec.collecting.books charter & related info Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:21:45 -0700 Organization: Obscurities Clarified Lines: 43 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: kamins.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b13 Rec.collecting.books is an unmoderated group for the discussion of all aspects of book collecting.It passed its vote for creation by 245:17 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 12 Jun 1996. This group is NOT appropriate for For Sale or Wanted To Buy postings, those being handled nicely in rec.arts.books.marketplace and (to a lesser extent) in rec.collecting. Nor would it include discussion of content, that being reserved for rec.arts.books. To indicate that you are interested in buying, selling, or trading books in your collecting area, please add information to your signature, as demonstrated by the one at the bottom of this post. A list of a few (and certainly not all) appropriate topic areas follows: - first edition points - detailed annotated bibliographies - tips on book preservation and repair - glossaries of book collecting terminology - lists of bookstores specializing in individual authors - rarity and value of particular books (as opposed to an individual's selling price) Here are a few appropriate subject titles: [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]