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- What is a homage stamp?
- What is a Boxing Buddy?
- What is a flea?
- What is a BIA?
- What is an ecoscavenger?
- What is cacheboxing?
- What is a SPOR?
- What is a whitelist and blacklist?
What is a homage stamp?
Homage stamps are created to pay respect to another letterboxer. They usually look like the letterboxer's personal stamp, but with a slight change in the stamp's image and name. They may also take a cue from the signature stamp, something that identifies who it is about. A few look completely different then the signature stamp, but are a wordplay on the letterboxer's trail name.
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What is a Boxing Buddy?
A Boxing Buddy is a small mascot, complete with its own signature stamp and logbook, sent to travel with you and share in your letterboxing adventures. You can host a Boxing Buddy or own a Boxing Buddy.
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What is a flea?
A flea is a hybrid combination of a cootie and a hitchhiker. It may be passed from person to person like a cootie, or left in a letterbox like a hitchhiker.
They are listed on AQ under the box type "cootie".
A sample explanation that can be written in its logbook to describe it is:
"This is a flea.
It may be passed from person to person like a cootie,
or left in a letterbox like a hitchhiker.
Please log your find on AtlasQuest.com"
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What is a BIA?
BIA's refer to Zutter Bind-It-All machined logbooks.
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What is an ecoscavenger?
Ecoscavengers provide a way to "hide" letterboxes where letterboxes are not allowed or are not a good idea. It's a combination of traditional and virtual letterboxes. There's no physical box found at the end but there is an electronic (virtual) stamp image reward.
You wouldn't/shouldn't hide a letterbox at a monument or in a national park. However, because there's nothing to hide, you can lead people to a special spot in a national park or an urban monument (or someplace that doesn't accommodate a physical box), and then reward their find with a virtual stamp image. These boxes are sometimes called 'webboxes'. To find them on LBNA, do a letterbox search for 'Word/phrase in box name': webbox. To find them on AQ do a 'basic search' for: ecoscavenger. You can also find these boxes on ecoscavenger.com.
- clues are deciphered by visiting a specific location
- once the clues are solved you will have a passkey
- visit a specific website (noted in the clues) and get your reward by using the passkey
- the reward is usually an electronic Letterbox Trading Card. It can be printed and stored in a logbook.
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What is cacheboxing?
Cacheboxing was invented by Der Mad Stamper and simply entails essentially treating the geocache as a letterbox whenever you stumble upon a geocache while letterboxing. That is, you stamp into the log and you pick the most stampable object in the geocache and use it to stamp into your logbook. Often there is something that works pretty well for a stamp. Using funny foam behind your page will enhance the stamping experience. Ensure you clean the object before returning it to the geocache. Cacheboxes finds should not be considered as a letterbox find. Some people choose to add their cachebox finds on AQ as an unlisted find. If you choose to do so, it would be best to list it as an "other" box type.
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What is a SPOR?
It's a suspicious pile of rocks.
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What is a whitelist and blacklist?
Whitelist - restrict your box to anyone on your designated whitelist.
Blacklist - exclude people from seeing your boxes. It works like the whitelist option, but in this case, anyone on your list cannot see the box, event, or tracker. Caveat: you may hurt someone's feelings or anger them if people figure out they are on a blacklist.
There is ONE instance where you might want to make use of the blacklist--and that's a blacklist with nobody in it.
The way AQ works, it has to know who is logged in to know whether or not to display the box, event, or tracker. So if you have a whitelist or blacklist restriction, anyone who is not logged in will not be able to see it.
An empty blacklist essentially means only a logged in member can view your box, event, or tracker.
(Paraphrased from Ryan's blog entry August 5 2009)
Wait, but couldn't you also do this simply by setting an F or P count?
Not exactly the same. An empty blacklist limits a box to AQ members who are logged in. A P or F-count restrictions limits a box to AQ members who are logged in and meet the restrictions.
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