Well, we appreciate the mailing lists.
Brian Cluff wrote:
> Roping The Wind wrote:
>
>> I admit another reason I wasnt a premium member of the main site was
>> because the features I got from the prem membership, I could also get
>> for free from azgeocaching.com. Perhaps that may play a factor in why
>> gc.com doesnt allow these local sites to crawl the main site for
>> data? I simply found azg.com's file downloads simpler to use and more
>> user friendly. They are also specific to Arizona and since I only
>> cache in Arizona... those data downloads were all I ever needed.
>
>
> I'm certain that is a least a small factor. We always went out of our
> way to not duplicate any features that gc.com already had....
> especially if they were premium features. The only reason we
> continued to offer the downloads was that it was actually a stolen
> feature from our site. Since we had the features first we felt that we
> were entitled to continue with it, but we always asked that people
> show their appreciation for out site by first subscribing to the
> official site. Without the official site we wouldn't be able to do
> much of anything beyond the mailing list.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
> AzGeocaching.com
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