[Az-Geocaching] Poll

[Guy Aldrich]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:46:25 -0800 (PST), Gale
<sonoralovesmommy at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 2)  Locationless caches.  OK, so they have 'em ... GC.com has some, and
> keeps mentioning some new replacement concept for them in the
> (indeterminate) future.  
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> Dont hold your breath waiting for them to return. It has been 2 years, and I
> am beginning to believe that the reality is that gc.com is waiting for the
> current ones to be archived and then they will quietly disappear and never
> return. 
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> 4) If I make two more Terracaching sock puppets, I should theoretically be
> able to post a cache full of porn, crack vials, Satanist pamphlets, and
> broken glass next to an active military installation.  I could list every
> fact about this clearly wrong cache --- but as long as my sponsors are
> willing co-conspirators, it'll go up live on the site as an approved cache. 
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> And if such a cache is found, then the site can still pull that cache, plus
> if your sponsors are sock puppets, that too will be noticed, via the ip.
> Those who are upline, that is the sponsors of your sponsors, can pull their
> sponsorship for the carelessness in allowing you to have that cache. There
> is accountability in the system. As far as the cache you propose in your
> hypothetical, it is equally possible for that cache to get through the
> system at gc.com too. Such a devious cacher at gc.com could set up an
> innocuous sounding cache with all that stuff in it, and just pretend someone
> raided his cache with that stuff. For that matter, someone just reading the
> cache pages at gc.com can vandalize caches with that stuff. On tc.com, that
> cant happen, since cachers have to be sponsored. There are vulnerabilities
> on both sites. 
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> These are SOME of the reasons that _at_this_time_  I'm not interested in
> TC.com.  I reserve the right to change my mind if it seems to improve in the
> future.  No one should feel obligated to belong just one site. No one should
> feel the need to discuss just one site on the listserv.  If I hear amazing
> things about caches that they offer that just knock my socks off, maybe I'll
> change my mind. 
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> Im glad to see that you are open minded to reconsider in the future, and
> that you feel that terracaching is something that can be discussed here. 
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> Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking 
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> 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!" 
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> Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898
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