Warning do not touch a TB found in any cache Warning if you place a TB in cache beware of the private emails from the cache police Warning if you warn anyone publicly about this individual you are a bad person and will be publicly flogged Warning letting one bad apple spoil the bunch ruins the crop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koch, Dan" To: Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] READ THIS CACHE SITE - >> But for him to email other cachers PRIVATELY and tell them that >> he thinks this or that is wrong... well that is just plain WRONG!!!! > > No...What is "just plain WRONG!!!!" is slamming someone in a public forum > when the attacker is IN NO WAY related to the situation. > > In my opinion, there is not a single thing wrong with PRIVATELY contacting > someone and telling them your thoughts about their actions. Isn't it > preferable to talk face-to-face rather than behind one another's backs? > > If people have a problem with what he has done TO THEM, then they should > drop him a PRIVATE email letting him know that they feel HIS actions are > inappropriate. Uninvolved parties telling him to go away, attacking him > and > copying his posts from totally different forums/sites are entirely > uncalled > for and show their true character. > > I should be quiet now. I wouldn't want to "be ostracized to the greatest > extent possible by the community". > > LazyK - Dan > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az- >> geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Roping The >> Wind >> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:36 PM >> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] READ THIS CACHE SITE - >> >> Dan, I think you are missing the point here that Shadowace and Cameron >> are >> saying. You are correct, Highpointer is totally within reason to say what >> he >> wants as far as opinions are concerned. It is america after all. BUT... >> what >> you might not know is that Highpointer has PRIVATELY emailed other >> cachers >> (on several occasions that I have been told about) and told them that he >> didn't think how they handled a certain Travel bug was correct. >> >> One case in point: a good friend of mine, who is also a regular >> geocacher.... placed a travel bug in a cache that was in east mesa. It >> was >> a >> somewhat urban cache, but in a large desert field. I would say this cache >> was definitely not near where muggles would particularly stumble upon it >> (anymore so than any other urban cache). It was probably 400' from the >> nearest road in a fairly thick desert field. The next day he gets an >> email >> from Highpointer (who is NOT the owner of this travel bug and is also NOT >> the owner of this cache) saying that he shouldn't have placed a TB in >> that >> cache as that cache is too urban and too likely to end up missing >> (therefore >> I guess placing the TB at risk of disappearing). >> >> Highpointer can state his opinions in his logs.. there is no harm done in >> that (although sometimes this too can create problems as some people >> aren't >> particularly strong mentally and might take them as harmful words). But, >> for >> him to email other cachers PRIVATELY and tell them that he thinks this or >> that is wrong... well that is just plain WRONG!!!! >> >> I wouldn't go as far as Brian did and tell Highpointer to take a hike or >> anything... but Highpointer needs to just play his game how he wants to >> play >> it and keep it at that and not tell other people how to play it. >> >> Quoted in two ways: >> >> "I don't think that travel bugs should be placed in high traffic area >> caches" >> >> "You should not place travel bugs in high traffic area caches" >> >> Those two sentences are two very similar quotes but yet very different >> quotes. The first is simply stating an opinion, the second is a command. >> Getting private emails like the second is not cool. >> >> Scott >> Team Ropingthewind >> >> >> >> >From: "Koch, Dan" < > >> >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >> >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >> >Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] READ THIS CACHE SITE - >> >Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:27:37 -0400 >> > >> >Right, and I'm just pointing out that he isn't the one slamming other >> >people, telling people to get the heck out of here, etc. Heck, he's >> pretty >> >much dropped out of sight as far as azgeocaching.com goes. >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 > ____________________________________________________________ > 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