+haggaeus Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Not sure if this is a new bug or if it has been around for a while: I used to refer to waymarks using the http://coords.info/ + WM code URL, but today I found it stopped working: for example http://coords.info/WMHNP4 redirects to http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wmhnp4 (the WM code is translated into lowercase) and this results in a "No waymark found" page. Quote
Keystone Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 The URL for the shortcut is coord.info, without the "s" at the end. Quote
+dprovan Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 interesting: coord.info --> owner is Groundspeak coords.info --> owner is someone else They offer the same service. Wow, that sounds scary if not illegal. I'm glad they hadn't set up shop before I (finally) taught myself to stop trying to use "coords.info", since that always seemed like the more logical name to me. Quote
+dprovan Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Now I'm starting to really get worried. I looked around thinking there'd be a discussion of this upstart somewhere, but the only thing I found was a handful of places where people were using it to point to caches, presumably without realizing it wasn't the Groundspeak service. I really can't think of a legitimate reason someone would create such a redundant, look-alike service, so I have to conclude that this is an attempt to fool people into using a third party web site. Quote
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