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Reply to: #304896 by Goofy girl
Oct 31, 2008 7:54pm
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Fine put us somewhere else so you can complain about us just like geocaching

That's weird - I never said anything about 'putting you somewhere else', nor did I 'complain about you', and where did 'just like geocaching' come from???? -- I also geocache.

If someone wanted to call logbook-making "letterboxing" you could agree that the name would not be appropriate. That does not carry any judgement about making logbooks, just that it is not the same as letterboxing (though related) and should therefore be called something else. Just because letterboxes have logbooks, some of which are very beautiful and involve much time and talent, doesn't mean that trading logbooks through the mail constitutes finding a letterbox. Ditto with postals stamps and virtuals stamps. Even personal travelers. They are not letterboxes, they are stamps, which doesn't imply that there is anything wrong with them, just that they are not letterboxes.
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Reply to: #304912 by Trailhead Tessie
Oct 31, 2008 8:01pm
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Don't worry about it I'm not going to. I am just upset someone wants to move everything that is not a traditional box somewhere else. What happens will happen no matter what I think or say so I am not going to worry about it.

GG
*one who never should have said anything to begin with* so just ignore me*
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Reply to: #304860 by Kirbert
Oct 31, 2008 8:15pm
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When you're on geocaching.com and click on the link to enter the geocaching forums, you apparently go to a different site -- but are automagically logged into the forums site. How does that work?

Beats the heck out of me. =) I know Microsoft had a "passport" system that supposedly allowed you to log into multiple websites with the same username and password. I don't know exactly how that works, but I assume that once you're logged in, the other website redirects you back to the original site with extra data in the URL (or as a POST) so that site has enough information to "automagically" log you in.

But frankly, it just seems like more work than it's worth. It's a lot easier to maintain one website that can do everything than lots of websites that do the same thing, and less efficient overall to boot.

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #304912 by Trailhead Tessie
Nov 1, 2008 6:35am
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I create and solve virtuals. I agree with TT about the verbiage. And I understand GG's anxiety about the talk of moving non-traditionals to another site. In my opinion it's never really worked well when virtuals were removed from geocaching and called waymarks - (and that's speaking from experience because I waymark too). Glad to see that Ryan has no intentions on moving out the non-traditionals. It may be too late to change the titles of what we now call the NTs.
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Reply to: #304860 by Kirbert
Nov 1, 2008 9:10am
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When you're on geocaching.com and click on the link to enter the geocaching forums, you apparently go to a different site -- but are automagically logged into the forums site. How does that work?

The first time you went to the forums you entered your id and password and it saved a cookie in your browser.

dave