At 03:35 PM 8/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
because
they were mailed to me.... and were not out right threating but were
shall I say disturbing enough that I want to play it safe right
now.....Scott you have not done any of my cache that I can remember but
some are shall I say very close to home..... and I like I said before I
want to play it safe
Actually I have done some of your caches. A couple of the virtuals
as well as the Sacaton North.
Would you please share some of these "disturbing" messages with
us? You don't have to provide any names or e-mail addresses.
If there are actually people sending messages that are threatening
caches, then I may change my mind about converting caches to MO, but
until someone can show me that there is a threat out there, I just can't
support the notion that a cache is somehow in danger just because there
was some negative press. At least not in any more danger than a
cache simply being plundered, as many have been.
Another question that no one has answered yet is why does turning them to
member's only protect them? It literally takes just a few minutes
to send a paypal payment to groundspeak and then you are a charter member
and have access to the cache coordinates. If a person, or group of
people were intent on stealing or trashing a cache, they would have very
little trouble doing so unless you went out and just removed them
yourself.
I promise everyone that this will be my last message on this subject, and
I mean no offense, we tend to agree on many issues, but I feel that this
is a knee jerk reaction to a perceived problem, and will just lead to
further knee jerk reactions to other perceived problems. I don't
think we can seriously believe that this is the last bad press that
geocaching will ever get, and if we decide that we have to somehow try to
hide our caches each and every time bad press happens, this will cease
being a fun game in very quick order.
Scott
Team My Blue Heaven