Thank you so much for your well thought out position on my situation. 
You have given me a new prospective on this cache.

Bob Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ

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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Unarchive and adopt a cache


Hi Bob,

I'm pretty much a lurker on this list, but I'm going to offer something
with the disclaimer that a) I'm not a very experienced cacher, b) I
don't have any hides of my own yet, and c) I can see both sides of the
issue, so I honestly don't have a strong opinion as to what should or
shouldn't be allowed here.

What I do know is that it looks like they're not going to allow it.
That's what you have to work with.

Other than the principle of the whole thing, it sounds like your biggest
reservation to opening the new cache is giving people a chance at
logging what would amount to a repeat find.  My thought is that this
detriment is outweighed by the benefit of allowing the find for new
cachers/people who haven't found this cache yet.  This is assuming that
this cache is worth finding, which I'm assuming it is, otherwise you
would have stopped all the worry long ago. :)

The reality is that people who get an artificial second find either a)
don't/won't have a lot of finds, in which case their numbers are out of
the realm of noticeable, anyway, or b) they do have a lot of finds, in
which case this "artificial second" will be statistically
insignificant.  I figure if it's a cache worth putting all of this worry
to in the first place, then it's worth placing a new cache.  Just my 
$.02.

Cheers,
-Lisa "PoledraDog"