[Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end

[Robert & Linda Smith]

Brian,

Please allow us to say "Thank You" very much for all your work in the 
AZGeocaching world as well.  We enjoyed watching the stats even though 
we never got out of the hundreds.  Please keep up with the site as it is 
and with what ever time you can devote.

Bob and Linda Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ

PATRICK FINLEY wrote:

> Brian..........Thanks alot for all you have done for AzGeocaching. The 
> stats were a LOT of fun, and we really enjoyed checking to see if we 
> moved up in the standings. The numbers added a lot to the fun of the 
> game. Fortunately, we don't care where we are in the standings 
> anymore.  Thank you, again..................
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Apryl Clark
>     *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:22 AM
>     *To:* listserv at azgeocaching.com
>     *Subject:* Re: [Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end
>      
>
>     Here here!
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         From:  /Gale <sonoralovesmommy at yahoo.com>/
>         Reply-To:  /listserv at azgeocaching.com/
>         To:  /listserv at azgeocaching.com/
>         Subject:  /Re: [Az-Geocaching] Time reversal - the end/
>         Date:  /Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:09:05 -0700 (PDT)/
>
>         Without a doubt, Azgeocaching.com is a main reason why we have
>         enjoyed geocaching. The sense of community is a big plus. Sure
>         the stats were nice, but the listserv is the main reason I use
>         azgc.com. Mike and I have always appreciated your hard work on
>         this site. Thank you Brian!
>
>         */Brian Cluff <brian at Snaptek.com>/* wrote:
>
>             Nope, you'd have to go back to a time when geocaching.com
>             appreciated
>             the business that the free service azgeocaching.com gave
>             them, insisting
>             that people gave money to geocaching.com before they
>             donated to
>             azgeocaching.com... and before they blocked every address
>             we had to be
>             able to gather the data that made AzGeocaching.com what it
>             was.
>
>             As of Aug. 14 stats are no more, and at this moment in
>             time they don't
>             appear to be coming back either. Sure we could move to a
>             different
>             source of bandwidth, but it would be a short lived victory
>             before they
>             blocked that address as well. I just wonder if they
>             thought about the
>             several thousand people they also blocked from getting to
>             geocaching.com
>             when they made their decision to block our whole Internet
>             service.
>
>             I don't like to toot my own horn, but I know
>             AzGeocaching.com had at
>             least a little bit to do with the immense popularity of
>             geocaching in
>             Arizona and they wouldn't have had near as many
>             subscribers without the
>             discussions on the mailing list and the people that were
>             into the
>             numbers. The least they could do is allow us to exist for
>             their own
>             sake. AzGeocaching.com was never a leach on their system
>             and never
>             would have been, we always ran the website at our own cost
>             and never
>             tried to make it pay for itself at the cost of geocaching.com
>
>             Brian Cluff
>             AzGeocaching.com
>             Team Snaptek
>
>
>
>         Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
>          
>         Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
>           On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
>         "Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the
>         Ranges --
>           "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you.
>         Go!"
>          
>         Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898
>
>