At 10:06 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote:

>It does mention that the Taking and Leaving part of the rules are optional 
>elsewhere in the FAQ, but nowhere does it say that signing the log is 
>optional. Signing the log book is the only reward that the people placing 
>the caches get. If it wasn't for the log book, the cache would just be 
>trash in the desert that people keep looking for.

You bring up a good point, but there is still something wrong with that.  I 
am sure that most of us have found real caches, not virtuals, that don't 
have a log book.  To claim the find, you email some specific information 
about something that was in the container.  In this case, you are not 
signing a log book, and if it is as you claim, the only hard and fast rule 
of geocachine, is that cache then not a valid cache?