GeneralBracket

They ought to be glad to see me. I'd trade up to a bigger gun. Only nine more posts to the tenth page. The person below me will be the 42nd post on this page. They're alive with excitement over the prospect of this thread going to 10 pages. They're so anxious in fact that they're considering just posing 9 times in a row.

quote:He sure taught you. Still HOA's are evil. Part of the offer on a house documents here in Idaho ask if you have seen the CC&R's that form the HOA and set out the rules. I'd strongly adivise everyone to read them. It's not General Bracket who makes a bad neighbor. It's those idiots who call in a complain and never say a word. Wha? Are you being facecious? Or coming down on me? I'm confused as to whether I should be defending myself. As far as common courtesy, at the time I didn't know who's boat it was. Otherwise I'd have headed over and spoken to him about it. No biggie. I moved it and didn't give it another thought. When he got an attitude with me about moving it, being human I responded in kind. I'm a great neighbor. I'm quite. I don't park my car IN MY YARD (pet-peeve). I keep my yard and house looking attractive. I actually did read the CC&R's BEFORE I bought the house, and I stick to the rules that I agreed to. As I said, I'm easy. After four days though it was ridiculous. I could have had the boat towed and I didn't. Instead I simply moved away from the front of my house. He got beligerent and decided to push my buttons by parking the boat back there attached to a truck I couldn't move. Sooo... finding it increasingly harder to take the high road I did what I did. It might bear mentioning that nothing has happened since. My wife said she saw it out there one morning, but it was gone by the time I got out there. No big deal. The four d@mn days is what aggravated me.

It's not actually my group. It's run by a couple cachers here in AZ. I think maybe we're not talking about the same thing. Please correct me if I'm wrong. A listserv is an email distribution list. People sign up and then every "post" to the listserv gets emailed out to the everyone on the list. A person "posts" to the listserv by sending an email to a designated listserv address, or replying to an email from the listserv. As far as getting the word out, you can post a message to the general and regional forums and rely on word of mouth from there. You can also tell other cachers as you meet them. This method is pretty effective. More so than you might think. Other cachers in your area are likely looking for just this sort of thing. You could even get it listed in the state section of GC.com as a local org. If you need assistance getting it going I can provide a little. Email me if you like. quote:Just send everybody in your area an email about it. No one is going to get bent if they get one email about this. If they do, you probably don't want to interact with them in the future anyway.I can agree with that I guess.

quote:Actually, if the individuals were emailed through the geocaching.com website, it wasn't spam, by your definition. The messages were sent individually to carefully targeted individuals. Since they were not sent in bulk, they do not fit your definition of spam. That's exactly what spammers say. I guess I actually did sign up for all those emails, eh? quote:Went to www.spamlaws.com , read some things briefly on it in the Federal section, but the summaries I read, they are referring to SPAM as unsolicitated bulk COMMERCIAL email. Of course there are different Acts that state different things....some interesting reading there.... Hmmm... you got me there. It isn't commercial. My feeling it that it's still spam though. Wanted spam maybe, but spam none the less. <heh> I guess it's all in the semantics. One mans spam is another mans information, as it were.

I must take a dissenting point of view here. I think it's spam. Unsolicited Bulk Email. Your suggestion seems to fit every word of that phrase. I don't want to spend all day explaining myself, but suffice to say that an email such as you describe would certainly be less unwanted than the Viagra and penile implant emails. Still spam though. Now for the constructive part... why not start a listserv for your area? We have one here run by AZGeocaching.com. It's very easy.

quote:There could be some concepts taken from The Price Is Right for this. Or the Running Man.

Let's see... 29 Geo Metros 18 old-style VW Beatles 6 old-style Mini Coopers 1 Yugo The person below me now has or once had one of these cars.

I'm probably the only person, but I love my HOA. Keeps the idiots in line. This jack@ss across the street from me parked his beat up raggedy old fishing boat in front of my house once. I'm easy so I let it be for a bit. I don't mind if it's there for a few hours or half a day, but it ended up being there for four days. At the time I wasn't sure whos it was, so on the fourth day (Sunday) I picked it up and wheeled it WAY down the street next to a wall where it wasn't in front of anyones house. Then I went in and ate lunch. About 30 minutes later the doorbell rings. I looked at my wife and said "Here we go". I answered the door and there he was. Bikers gear, confederate flag hat, ratty beard, and side arm. (Ugh) He asked me in a rather buligerant manner if I had moved his boat. I said three things... 1. Yes I did. 2. I'll do it again if it's there. 3. Read your CC&R's and you'll see that you're lucky I didn't have it towed. He starts spouting off about it being a public street and whatnot. Becoming more irriated I again told him to read the d@mn CC&R's and next time I would have it towed. The wife and I leave and come home later that night to find a HUGE truck parked in front of our house with the boat hitched to it. I had it towed. People like this don't understand that there is an HOA for a reason.

Just had another thought... Like I said in my first post to this thread, if a query returns 500 caches you may begin to wonder what was left out of it. If I make a query that returns 850, my query naturally returns only 500, leaving out 250 seemingly random caches. BUT, if I have an available slot(s) (i.e. I have less than 5 queries setup) the spill could go into a second query which would return 250 more entries. If I make a query that returns 1200, then assuming I have available slots the spill-over could be sent in two more queries. And so forth and so on up to the 5/500 limit. Assigned queries would obviously take priority over non-assigned "spill-over" queries. If I do have all 5 query slots filled or don't have enough available slots, then I get results only up to my 5/500 limit. I like my first idea (first post to this thread), but this might be workable if that one wasn't. Just brainstorming.

quote:I keep about 850 waypoints on my vista. and that's just two PQs. One for unfound within 65 miles and one for found within 500 miles. I have four PQs just for a little experiment. I based them on the placement date and carefully counted them out so the are less than 500 per query. That gives me every cache in the state. When the fourth one fills up I'll put in a end placement date on that one and start a new one. I can also re-adjust the dates from time to time to compensate for archived caches and such. Using Watcher is by no means difficult, but... it would be nice to remove a step. It bears mentioning that I don't always want these, just now and then. But I can't deactivate them without deleteing them (that I know of).

WiFi man! I don't have to wait. I knew I should have waypointed the car. The person below me is using a Garmin and is coming to my rescue with fresh batteries (and the coords of my car), because they know that S&R are using Magellans and may never get here.

The person above me likes acronyms.

Thanks! Happy 5th of July to you!

Dirty ones. The person below me IS a chicken, but has yet to cross any roads.

Eh? It's not July 4th where your at?

That's enough. Someone should step on this thread. Elias?

The person above me has a GPSr implanted in their face.

Special prize for the FTF! The person below me just got very excited.

It is thrashing around quite a bit. The posts are getting further apart. However, it'll never really die. Someone will start another never-ending thread and in that thread someone will mention reviving this thread, and WAALAA! It'll be resurrected. Just like the complaint thread. The person below me will make another Nostradamus-type prediction about this thread. They'll even do it in a quatrain.

Yes I do. Just like the way I smelled after doing THIS CACHE. The person below me wishes they had done that cache.

Nevermind. The person above me figured out that it was a board game from the mid 60's.

The person above me is going to tell me where their avatar came from.

Everyone should slashdot that phone number.

Ummm... Here in the southwest we call 'em burritos. The person below me had to Google for "pierogies".

I didn't, but the Howard Cosell bit nearly ruptured my kidneys. Then when I actually repeated it out loud in a Cosell voice, I passed out. The person below me is still reading it shaking their head in disbelief.