[Az-Geocaching] For the Caching gods

[Scott Nicol]

Ok. I don't usually fuss with much, but this one definetly irritates me. I 
am one of those 'numbers' cachers. I do enjoy looking at the stats and the 
numbers (for my own pleasure of course, not for competitive purposes). I am 
a bit annoyed that 9 of my in state cache finds now show up as out of state.

This is the result of 8 AZ caches becoming 'members only' caches. These are 
caches that previously (when I found them), where not MO. What happens is 
that the AZgeocaching.com site is not a member, therefore it doesnt crawl 
the MO cache pages. (that is what I have heard anyways). At any rate, the AZ 
stats doesnt recognize Arizona MO caches and they show up in the out of 
state file. (anyone who knows me knows that I have 0 out of state finds and 
probably always will!).

I personally beleive that if a cache is started out as a 'free' cache, it 
should remain that way for the life of the cache. If someone chooses to make 
their caches members only, they should do so with only the new caches that 
they place and not turn all their old caches into MO caches. I know 
Highpointer recently commented on this on the listserve a few days ago and 
that he was going to change his caches over to MO. I understand his views on 
the subject. However, Highpointer...I feel you should keep your old caches 
open to all and if you want members only, perhaps only turn your new ones 
into MO. The other problem I have with old caches changing into MO... I no 
longer can look back on those caches and read my logs (diary if you will) of 
my experiences at those caches (as I am not a member of geocaching.com; that 
is a whole nuther' thread, I am sure!). I hope Highpointer will reconsider 
changing his old caches back to non-MO.

I have always enjoyed doing Highpointer's caches, he hides some good ones. I 
also very much appreciate his seeking my cache on Stewart Mountain and the 
comments he left there. I think me and Highpointer share many of the same 
views on geocaching and enjoy doing the same types of caches.

I guess I will not be able to do anymore of Highpointer's caches as I am not 
a member of geocaching.com. However, I have no problem with his making his 
new caches MO, Members Only caches are available as an option to members of 
geocaching.com and that is an option that is available to him to use if he 
chooses to. I just wish he would reconsider and keep his older caches open 
to all.

Scott
Team Ropingthewind




>From: Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com>
>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] For the Caching gods
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:12:21 -0700
>
>Yes, if caches are being moved to members only that were previously 
>available to anyone, they will show up as out of state.
>
>Brian Cluff
>Team Snaptek
>
>Regan Smith wrote:
>
>>Would the new out of state finds be a result of the Member Only Caches?


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