[Az-Geocaching] Why use work emails at geocaching.com?

[Koch, Dan]

Let me state a hypothetical response to this hypothetical question.

Maybe that person does have their email sent to their personal address, but
just didn't choose to check it this weekend.  Maybe the people who hid the
cache wanted it to be a bit of a challenge?  Maybe that person went out with
friends, played a couple rounds of frisbee golf, saw a couple movies, went
to a nice dinner with the spouse, spent an entire day at the science center
to see the Titanic exhibit, or otherwise had a life outside of geocaching?

Again, this is a purely hypothetical situation.

And, hypothetically speaking, why would anyone who blasts someone else in a
public forum expect any assistance from the person they are blasting.
Hypothetically speaking, of course!

Dan
Team LazyK

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Schwarz [mailto:malthusian@mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 2:21 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Why use work emails at geocaching.com?


I am wondering why certain people use their WORK email address,
rather than a HOME email address, at the geocaching.com site.
I do know several hiking friends who have no PC at home, so
I either email them during the week, or call them on the
old-fashioned telly on the weekend.  But its hard to imagine
a GEOCACHER with no PC at home.

Let me state a purely hypothetical situation where this
could be a problem.

Let's say that 2 teams decide to place a cache, where you
have to locate 2 products to get the coordinates.  One of
the 2 products is a very hard to locate item, with a brand
name that most stores have never even heard of, and which
doesn't appear in search engines on the web.  One or more
geocachers decide to email the placers of the cache,
requesting info on where to find the item.

Problem is, in this purely hypothetical situation, the placers
of the cache left their WORK email address with geocaching.com.
And the cache appeared on the listings late in the day on a
Friday.  So, people who would like to hunt the cache down,
and need to find the oddball product, who email the cache
owners, don't get a reply for maybe 60 hours, since their
email was sent to a work email address.

Again, this is a purely hypothetical situation.

Is there any good reason to use a WORK email address instead
of a HOME email address?  The home email address can be kept
private from everyone- just don't check the box that says
"send them my email address".  Does anyone who geocaches
actually not have a PC or laptop at home?

Mike (Malthusian)


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