I originally found the forum while doing a google search to prove that it was legal to melt copper pennies.. back when it was. I was working a 2 ton deal with my metals broker at #2 copper price, but he wanted me to prove that it was legal to melt them. Unfortunately, the federal stuff has only been scanned and posted back 10 years, so it didn't go back far enough for me to print the actual proof. When they passed the melt ban he said "I guess you were right all along, but we can't do it now." So that's when I became one of the first sellers of copper cents on eBay.. back when fees were almost reasonable.
I remember there was some guy named Andy who claimed to have developed a machine that could actually sort the copper from the zinc. Yeah, right! What kind of scam was this?