Graeme.N

I, too, would like to be able to download the GPX info file via the WAP site. Please, please, PLEASE?!

Sorry OP, but this reply is more to some of those that have posted than to you ... My daughter and I found our first LPC last week and despite it being on the top floor of a parking building, we actually enjoyed it because of it being a clever hide (we thought - we had never encountered one before, and would not have thought of hiding one there ... didn't realise it was possible). The cache was small, about 200ml I think, and had a variety of swaps in it and plenty of room for trackables. While I prefer interesting locations, and my children prefer "treasures", we also enjoy the search and variety: though this was something new (and therefore, exciting) to us, we wouldn't want to do hundreds of them, maybe not even dozens, unless the bulk of them were in interesting locations.

Be that as it may (and I'm not disputing it), it still seems to me like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut, as was the recent <div> fiasco. Yes, they rolled back the <div> block, and they should roll back the ALR removal. - There are better ways to handle the problems a few ALRs have been causing, without getting rid of those that nicely add to the geocaching experience.(I have made suggestions earlier in this thread if you want to know my suggestions.)

So, then the reviewers will need to make yet another "judgement call" opening them up to problems with owners who think their ALS is fun and not ridiculous...like they need more work?? I think it's a smart decision just like they don't allow agendas! One possibility is to have a small list of permissible examples included in the guidelines, and if a requested ALR is not akin with whats on the list, it gets denied.

Sounds like Groundspeak using another "sledge hammer to crack a nut" solution. I think changing/tightening the listing requirements (to exclude ridiculous ALRs, but still allow reasonable ones) and making the changes retro-active would have been a better way to fix the problem.