[Az-Geocaching] San Diego Bound TB

[Shara Whitaker]

This TB wants to go to San Diego:

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=00b7e140-c1e7-4404-abd0-8e4f95591369


>From: "Poulin, Mia" <mpoulin at kyrene.org>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:46:57 -0700
>
>We are new to this geocaching adventure.  We love finding new places as 
>much as our young kids (5 & 8) love finding the caches.  We are traveling 
>to San Diego this weekend to visit grandpa who has selected some geocaches 
>based on places he wants to visit with the kids (beach, Sea World, etc.)  
>How do we come across a travel bug that wants to hitch a ride to a new 
>cache near the Pacific Ocean?
>
>TeamCARMa
>
>________________________________
>
>From: az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com on behalf of 
>ShadowAce
>Sent: Wed 5/17/2006 3:55 PM
>To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak
>
>
>For those, like myself, who avoid the forums I noticed these two today and 
>thought I would share:
>
>------------ Regarding TB Logging ------------------
>Lately there has been an increase in logging activity for Travel Bugs and 
>Geocoins. Unfortunately many people were picking up and dropping these 
>items into the same geocache so they could increase their find count or 
>receive a new trackable icon in their profile. As a result we have created 
>a new log type which also goes towards your profile count without causing 
>unnecessary extra movements for the trackable item.
>
>The new log type is called "Discovered it" and can be used if you have the 
>tracking number for the icon. Please use this if you have no plans to move 
>the Travel Bug or geocoin to a new location.
>
>------------ Regarding the changing of Names ---------------
>
>We're working on customizing an application for use with Geocaching.com 
>that will require us to lock down the ability to change your username. As a 
>result on May 15th we will be locking down the username change feature on 
>the web site.
>
>The technical issue relates to a fundimental part of their application that 
>stores usernames in the database outside of the account data. This means 
>that if we did make username changes in our account database it would 
>require a tremendous effort to automatically update the other system with 
>the username change.
>
>Generally sites don't allow name changes like we've been allowing over the 
>last 5 years, so we're moving towards the generally accepted standard for 
>most web sites. It's an unfortunate change but necessary considering the 
>importance of the new features.
>
>For those who just can't live without changing their usernames we'll do our 
>best to come up with some tools to move your information over to a new 
>username. You can already do adoptions <http://www.geocaching.com/adopt>  
>to your new account but there is no current way to move other information 
>like bookmark lists, premium memberships, or log entries.
>
>  (UPDATED WITH)
>
>The lockdown has been changed to May 20, so you have a few more days to get 
>your name changes in.
>
>
>---------------------------
>
>  That is all I have. :)
>
>ShadowAce
>


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