Ken,
Am I understanding correctly that you will be making your caches members
only to avoid land managers and the policies they have in place?
CacheLess
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Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 12:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Cache Pirate on the loose: Here is how I will
protect my caches
I have decided to do the same. With all the land managers out grabbing my
caches and now this bozo on the loose it is becoming to frustrating.
Ken
WhereRwee?
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From: Ken <
mailto:ken@highpointer.com> Akerman
To:
listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Cache Pirate on the loose: Here is how I will
protect my caches
To Arizona Geocachers,
It's sad to see that there apparently is a cache pirate
<
http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=121309> on the loose. I
thought his entries were a joke, because he stated that he was at two caches
on Saturday that I visited in the morning (neither one was plundered at that
time), but when I checked the log for Pushing
<
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=67154> Tin near Sky
Harbor International Airport, I read that Azcachmeister
<
http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=88519> had visited the
cache this morning and reported that it indeed had been plundered.
I am heading out to the Diamondbacks game in a short time, so on the way
there I will stop at a cache that I visit frequently, Have Bug,
<
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=13581> Will Travel. I
stopped there Saturday morning to get the only travel bug in it and I moved
the travel bug to another cache in Pinal County later that day.
Fortunately, if the pirate did clean out this cache, there were no travel
bugs in it.
In order to protect my traditional caches, I have made them all Members
Only. This is to protect my own caches from plundering, as it appears the
Cache Pirate is not a Geocaching.com Premium Member. I recommend that all
cachers make your caches Members Only (and become a Premium Member if you
are not a member) now to protect them from plundering. (Virtual caches
cannot be plundered, so those are open to all).
Since there are some new cachers who perhaps aren't sure if they want to pay
the $30 annual fee to become a Premium Member, here is what I will do for
you. If you want to find one of my Members Only caches, and you are not yet
a Premium Member and have been an active geocacher for less than three
months with fewer than 50 cache findings, then you could find one of my
caches without becoming a Premium Member. To do this, send me an e-mail
explaining what cache you would like to find, and I will respond with an
e-mail listing the coordinates and a brief description. You could find the
cache and sign the logbook in the cache, but you won't be able to log your
finding on Geocaching.com until you become a Premium Member.
This is available to new geocachers only (and obviously does not apply to
the Cache Pirate). I hope this new personal policy is agreeable to all, and
in my opinion will encourage Geocachers to become Premium Members without
restricting access to geocaching by newcomers.
Ken Akerman (a.k.a. Highpointer)
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