[Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end

[Steven Stringham]

Echo, Echo, Echo.

I did start a thread in the GC forums on this question. We shall see 
what I get back.

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=108925




Robert & Linda Smith wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Please allow us to say "Thank You" very much for all your work in the 
> AZGeocaching world as well.  We enjoyed watching the stats even though 
> we never got out of the hundreds.  Please keep up with the site as it 
> is and with what ever time you can devote.
>
> Bob and Linda Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ
>
> PATRICK FINLEY wrote:
>
>> Brian..........Thanks alot for all you have done for AzGeocaching. 
>> The stats were a LOT of fun, and we really enjoyed checking to see if 
>> we moved up in the standings. The numbers added a lot to the fun of 
>> the game. Fortunately, we don't care where we are in the standings 
>> anymore.  Thank you, again..................
>>  
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* Apryl Clark
>>     *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:22 AM
>>     *To:* listserv at azgeocaching.com
>>     *Subject:* Re: [Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end
>>     
>>     Here here!
>>
>>         
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         From:  /Gale <sonoralovesmommy at yahoo.com>/
>>         Reply-To:  /listserv at azgeocaching.com/
>>         To:  /listserv at azgeocaching.com/
>>         Subject:  /Re: [Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end/
>>         Date:  /Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:09:05 -0700 (PDT)/
>>
>>         Without a doubt, Azgeocaching.com is a main reason why we have
>>         enjoyed geocaching. The sense of community is a big plus. Sure
>>         the stats were nice, but the listserv is the main reason I use
>>         azgc.com. Mike and I have always appreciated your hard work on
>>         this site. Thank you Brian!
>>
>>         */Brian Cluff <brian at Snaptek.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>             Nope, you'd have to go back to a time when geocaching.com
>>             appreciated
>>             the business that the free service azgeocaching.com gave
>>             them, insisting
>>             that people gave money to geocaching.com before they
>>             donated to
>>             azgeocaching.com... and before they blocked every address
>>             we had to be
>>             able to gather the data that made AzGeocaching.com what it
>>             was.
>>
>>             As of Aug. 14 stats are no more, and at this moment in
>>             time they don't
>>             appear to be coming back either. Sure we could move to a
>>             different
>>             source of bandwidth, but it would be a short lived victory
>>             before they
>>             blocked that address as well. I just wonder if they
>>             thought about the
>>             several thousand people they also blocked from getting to
>>             geocaching.com
>>             when they made their decision to block our whole Internet
>>             service.
>>
>>             I don't like to toot my own horn, but I know
>>             AzGeocaching.com had at
>>             least a little bit to do with the immense popularity of
>>             geocaching in
>>             Arizona and they wouldn't have had near as many
>>             subscribers without the
>>             discussions on the mailing list and the people that were
>>             into the
>>             numbers. The least they could do is allow us to exist for
>>             their own
>>             sake. AzGeocaching.com was never a leach on their system
>>             and never
>>             would have been, we always ran the website at our own cost
>>             and never
>>             tried to make it pay for itself at the cost of 
>> geocaching.com
>>
>>             Brian Cluff
>>             AzGeocaching.com
>>             Team Snaptek
>>
>>
>>
>>         Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
>>                  Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang 
>> interminable changes
>>           On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
>>         "Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the
>>         Ranges --
>>           "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you.
>>         Go!"
>>                  Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898
>>
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