That's a good idea, in theory. However, not every cacher can write code like the Snaptek guys, nor can everyone understand how to run a script of this nature. If they gave me the code, I'd gladly throw it up on my server to run, and all would be happy. :) Brian Team A.I. > > From: Bob Renner > Date: 2003/09/04 Thu PM 05:34:29 EDT > To: Arizona Geocaching List > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics > > Jason, > > I realize this would be a total rewrite of your > statistics gathering software, but it might be a way > to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com > website. Instead of crawling the entire data base, go > to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers, > and get the information from the "User Stats" pages. > Anyone who wants to have their information included > into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you > to include them in your list. You could still include > the logs of others on the caches within Arizona. > > Another, approach would be for you to provide the code > for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers > to get their basic information from geocaching.com and > then automatically forward this to you to be compiled > into one database. The advantage of this would be > that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple > IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats > need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or > placed a new cache). > > Just a thought that might help get around any blocking > you are experiencing. > > Bob Renner > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >