[Az-Geocaching] punishment and non crimes

[Marc]

I would agree - there are some teams that spend lots of time maintaining 
their caches. There are many that don't. I would think the answer would 
be more self maintained by the finders for those teams that do not 
maintain their caches. I find that many do not post no finds. If we all 
did that, simply by reading the logs, other cachers would know there 
might be a problem and not waste the time to go there. I know for my 
caches, if there is a no find, I check on it and post a note letting 
everyone know that all is ok. So, how do you convince chachers to log 
the no finds, post notes, and send e-mails to the owners? It seems that 
some think a no find is bad. I think its courtesy to the general caching 
community.

Tamo



Scott Wood wrote:

> At 08:14 PM 4/4/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> so what should be done when you find a cache that the owner hasn't 
>> fixed after being plundered? I mean say 2 teams visit the site a week 
>> apart both stating that the cache is in diss repair or missing and 
>> the cache owner hasn't responded to any emails or postings to the 
>> matter??? then what would be appropriate time for fixing a cache???
>
>
> I don't know if there is a good answer for that.  I guess it would 
> have to be case to case.  Let's assume that one of my caches was 
> plundered in late Jan.  I would not have been able to taken care of it 
> until late Feb. since I was on an unexpected trip to North Idaho for a 
> family crisis.  Not only was I 1500 miles from my cache, but I had 
> terrible internet connectivity while there, and could hardly check on 
> my e-mail.
>
> Obviously I would want to fix my cache when I arrived back in Tucson, 
> but 1 week would hardly be enough time.  On this particular trip, I 
> could have easily been stuck in Idaho for 6 or 8 weeks instead of the 
> 3.5 I was there.
>
> I just don't know if there is a good answer to this question.  
> Personally, I don't think that a cache should be allowed to be 
> archived just by a cacher making a comment to an admin.
>
>
>
> Scott
>
> wood@myblueheaven.com
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