[GeoStL] Re: Newbie ignorance!
- From: Stephen Martin <faery_generic@xxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:41:18 -0700
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I am so glad I enter everything I do in manually. It forces me to slow down
and read the pages as I do so. I am rarely surprised by new coordinates,
diablings, etc.
Stephen the technophobe
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, at 05:30PM, "Jack Anderson"
<pandyandy3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Eric,
>
> It is obvious that he had the old cache coordinates. I had the same thing
> happen to me with cds231 "A History of Jefferson Barracks" cache. I was
> believing that my GPS was right as I downloaded the coordinates from my
> computer but lo-and-behold cds231 politely told me that if you download a new
> batch of caches over the old it would not update the old coordinates. This
> was just what had happened as I found nothing out in the woods. Maybe that
> is what happened to him and maybe not. It took a couple of e-mails back and
> forth to educate me on what happened. It all started with my "No Find" log
> and cds231 calmly explaining that he had recently had to move the cache
> location and for me to recheck the cache page (not GC.com, which by the way
> does go to ads). That is how I found out my GPS was wrong and I went back
> and edited my log to explain my ignorance.
>
> Maybe try a little bit better to explain and when all is settled ask that
> both of you go to fix the logs.
>
> I also wrote an exasperated log once (or maybe twice) as a newbie on "Buder
> Upper" and realized later that I should have been easier on it. And I now
> realize that I should have apologized to Island-Dave about it.
>
> Jack
>
>Eric East <christianherper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do any of you know a cacher named skylerdragon?
> If so, what is his problem?!
> He's trying to stir up trouble by requesting that my Guiding Light cache
> GCC03E be archived because of his ignorance.
>
> Check out his log on my cache. And here's his latest e-mail to me....
>
> I do not understand why you sent me to such a malicious site (gc.com). I
> would appreciate it if you updated coordinates for GUIDING LIGHT correctly,
> or archived it so other users don't have the same negative experience that I
> have had. Thank you.
>
>
>
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