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Since apparently the only privilege associated with membership is voting for the BOD, I’m not sure this is that important to the individuals.
One negative is that currently we have the ability to say that we represent geocachers residing in the state of Wisconsin when we deal with government agencies. If we start adding “auxiliary members” from out of state, would we represent geocachers residing in the state of Wisconsin and tourists? I think that this is significant in these times where we are working to ensure the long-term viability of the game.
With regard to the Becky’s post, I am assuming that we do not intend to eliminate from membership people who have handicaps which would prevent them receiving a driver’s license (poor vision being the most likely reason). The wording provided would do exactly that. What if they just can’t pass the drivers test due to poor driving skills? Are those people excluded? Perhaps this should be changed to read “eligible for Wisconsin Drivers License or State Identification Card”?
Woohoo, nice job! You realize, however, that in Wisconsin we have a requirement that your ratio of puzzle caches found to traditional caches found must be greater than or equal to the ratio of puzzle caches placed to traditional caches places. (We personally owe about 100 traditional cache placements!)
Links are especially nice for the poor guy who maintains the recommended cache bookmark list….
Things are looking good here. We have a total of 6 facilitators, including Blue Squrtles, stumbleweeder, and jeremy. Thanks to you all for your help!
WSQ for me.
Actually, he can’t (unless we can convince him to move here with us!) COTM is members only.
You are using a program called ZoneAlarm Mailsafe. (How do I know this? I could tell you but then you would be indebted to me for life!) You have your Mailsafe set to “quarantine” zip files (and probably numerous other file types) so that you don’t accidentally execute them. If you frequent “questionable” websites which scavenge your email address and send it to evil doers, this is probably a good idea. If you just click on anything people send you without understanding first what it is, this is CERTAINLY a good idea. Mailsafe “quarantines” the files by changing the extension to ZM9 from zip in the incoming emails. It makes no other changes to the file, so you can just change it back to use it.
What you need to do when you receive your pocket query is right click the attachment, select save attachment, pick a directory where you can find it, change the extension to .zip, and save it. Note that you MUST NOT change the numerical portion of the name. (This is a requirement of the website.) Now go to itsnotaboutthenumbers and upload it.
IF you want to tinker with your Zonealarm so that Zip files don’t get quarantined (not a dangerous choice, as zip files require multiple clicks to do any damage), here is some additional info from one of my sources.
In ZoneAlarm:
– To Enable MailSafe : Go to Email Protection -> Main and click ON.
– To Disable MailSafe : Go to Email Protection -> Main and click OFF.
– To select the types of attachments you would like ZoneAlarm to quarantine, Go to Email Protection -> Attachments. You can add a new attachment type here. You can also change the current setting for a type already listed by clicking in the Quarantine column, and select either Quarantine or Allow.Note that if you are using a work computer, these options might be locked.
I like the paragraph, Mark. Good job on this.
I also think we should discourage caches named with just WSQ and the number. In my opinion, it is harder to remember caches which are named with only a series and a number.
If you mean the second one, this is just a text file of a macro. You have to save it and then use GSAK to run it. Otherwise it will just open the text file.
If you mean the http://www.itsnotaboutthenumbers.com web site, you will need to provide some more info.
Thanks all. And to Notmuch, au contrare mon soeur! I WAS enjoying my Easter by geocaching, since my wife was sleepworking third shift this weekend. (She was caching with me yesterday for the milestone, but not today.)
Assuming you have GSAK, there is also a macro which will determine what county a cache is in (before you find it or after). It is called “counties.txt”. I am working on a similar one for Delorme pages, but reading those little coordinate numbers on the book pages is giving me a headache. Anybody have a list of the coordinates for Delorme pages so I don’t have to get new glasses?
I never have a lock problem, but I was getting a lot of drift around 3:30 today.
Oh, and I am ambivalent about numbering (which is why I forgot to put it in the first post).
I’ve hunted several of the ISQ caches. Most of them were above average locations. On the other hand, I think the excessive “boiler plate” on the ISQ cache page description adds nothing and distracts from the point of the caches. If we want to have “rules” for SQ caches, we can post them on a web page and link to it from the cache page.
I can’t imagine that we would want to adopt the ISQ rule that SQ caches must be placed by a person and a dog. I find this very odd.
Also, I kind of chuckle at night caching restrictions on cemetery caches. In my mind, night is the best (perhaps the only) time to hunt caches in cemeteries, as it minimizes the chance of disturbing anyone who is mourning. Now obviously if a cemetery is right next to a home, that is a different case. In all the cemetery caches I have hunted which had night caching restrictions, the cemetery was in the middle of nowhere.
My only issue with this event would be that it is not obvious that geocachers are behind the event. The ID associated with this event appears to have been created specifically for this event. While its possible that some geocachers are involved in the project, it would be better if they put their name on the event to make this clear.
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