[GeoStL] Re: OT: Fire wall test
- From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:01:43 -0500
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Jen, I think you're looking for http://grc.com/ by Gibson.
Arte you going to Columbia tomorrow?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jen Guyer" <nyisutter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:52 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] OT: Fire wall test
> -
> Someone sent a link awhile back for testing your computer's security.
Could
> you send it again please? Thanks.
>
> jen
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Glenn
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:11 PM
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Glenn Being first....
>
>
> -
> NOTE: This is not a knock on anyone but....
>
> The only reason one would think it that "...It seems a little unfair
that
> cache approvers sometimes get info..." would be to imply that the
> approvers would use said info to "cheat" at the game. I find that
> personally insulting. It has been mentioned several times and it is just
> as insulting each time. If you would have taken the time to match my
logs
> against the "placed on" dates of the multi caches in town, you would have
> discovered that I have not been to many of them and when I do find
> them, it is long after they are placed and almost never alone anymore.
>
> If you would have checked further into the last several hundred caches I
> have found, you would have discovered that I have been 1st to *very* few
> and then its almost an accident. The last one a day or two ago we waited
> 'till nearly noon. Shesh, who would have thunk that no one would have
been
> there.
>
> I *do* have the ability to be the 1st to find on every cache placed. Why
> then do ya think i wait so long before going out?
>
> Many new cachers think that the approvers actually go out to the sites for
> a visual inspection before caches are approved. I dont think that i have
> ever done that. Do ya think I should start??
>
> The topic of cache approvals is actually a very valid discussion point.
Do
> caches need to be approved at all? if so why? or why not? If not why do
> we bother with it.
>
> discuss....
>
> Point 2. The email service is too slow for anything useful. Go to the
> GC.com home page. upper right side, input Missouri in the STATE box. A
> listing of the last several caches are displayed there. The cache will be
> there the second I approve it. There is no lag time. So knowing that,
and
> knowing that when I work I approve caches when I get up at 0430 and when I
> get home after 8pm, if someone starts checking the newest caches in
> Missouri about those times, there is a good chance that you will be a 1st
> finder if you leave the house the second that you see a posting. Past
> that, it is just luck. I have never given Strider, Ma & Pa or GB cacher
> any advanced notice on caches that are about to be approved. They are
just
> fast. (for a small fee tho... ) :-)
>
> Discuss some more...
>
> to Jim, i did get you point, i saw the smiley and was not in the least
> offended.
>
> Glenn
>
> At 06:58 AM 7/18/2003, Eric & Dayna East wrote:
> >-
> >NOTE: This is not a knock on anyone but....
> >It seems a little unfair that cache approvers sometimes get info from the
> >cache placers that others do not have access to. In some cases, they get
> >exact locations. I think it
> >would be best if cache approvers did not approve caches in their area for
> >this reason.
> >Now as to how the "big guns" get to caches so quickly... There are e-mail
> >services that will notify you when a new cache is placed. Also Buxleys
> >web site maps are pretty good
> >at getting the caches listed in a timely manor. Besides that you can do
> >daily searches for new caches on GC.com
> >
> >Eric
> >
> >JimSGreene@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > -
> > > Glenn waited until 11:00 am for all of us FTF'rs to get it first. I
> > just was surprised that if I didn't get it, that Pa & Ma, Konopapw, or
> > GB-Cacher wern't able to get there:)
> > >
> >
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