[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

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That's a good idea, in theory.  However, not every cacher can write code like the Snaptek guys, nor can everyone understand how to run a script of this nature.  If they gave me the code, I'd gladly throw it up on my server to run, and all would be happy.  :)

Brian
Team A.I.
> 
> From: Bob Renner <renner001@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/09/04 Thu PM 05:34:29 EDT
> To: Arizona Geocaching List <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics
> 
> Jason,
> 
> I realize this would be a total rewrite of your
> statistics gathering software, but it might be a way
> to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com
> website.  Instead of crawling the entire data base, go
> to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers,
> and get the information from the "User Stats" pages. 
> Anyone who wants to have their information included
> into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you
> to include them in your list.  You could still include
> the logs of others on the caches within Arizona.
> 
> Another, approach would be for you to provide the code
> for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers
> to get their basic information from geocaching.com and
> then automatically forward this to you to be compiled
> into one database.  The advantage of this would be
> that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple
> IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats
> need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or
> placed a new cache).
> 
> Just a thought that might help get around any blocking
> you are experiencing.
> 
> Bob Renner
> 
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