I have mixed feelings.  On the one hand, the idea of paying $30 a year sounds
bad (especially when trying to balance the budget this month), but then, I
also just thought about how much I spend on geocaching each month anyway.  
The last cache I put out cost me almost $40 total (the container, the
trinkets, the pens, the logbooks, etc.) and I must spend at least that much
more on other trinkets and things to add to geocaches every month (I just
bought 4 really cool keychains I found at K-Mart for geocaching at $2.99
each!  And then there's the disposable camera I recently retrieved from my
first geocache that I just retrieved from the developer - that's about $8
plus another $6 for the camera I replaced it with).  And that doesn't count
gas costs to drive out to some remote site (with my Twooper getting 16 mpg
and gas running about $1.139 a gallon, thats $0.07 a mile not including any
maintenance, so that's about $5 for my weekend geocaching expedition just for
the gas [I placed one and found another])!  So after thinking things over for
a moment, $30 a year is a bargain!  I don't know if I'll go out and pay that,
at least right away, but I might just do so once I see what new features they
offer to paying customers.  I'm not sure I'll ever post a Member only cache.
But who knows, if I ever run into unethical cheapskate geocachers, I might
make all my new geocaches member only.

Jim.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Cody Brown wrote:

> I have no problem with this.  A mere $30 a year is a very small price to pay
> for the incredible service and entertainment that Jeremy provides to us.
> Being familiar with the computer industry, I know how much server equipment
> can cost.  A high-end server costs can easily exceed the cost of a luxury
> car.  And yes, even more than a yellow Jeep.
> 
> Cody
> Team CBX2
> 
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Jim Scotti                              
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
University of Arizona                
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/