Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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December 1998

Our USA site (list subscription)

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-12-02
In a message dated 11/30/98 9:01:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, Wolfenhnd@aol.com writes: > could someone give me the > info on how to subscribe to the mail list? The answers to all your questions...

Letterbooks?

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 16 messages | First message: 1998-12-01 | Last message: 1998-12-08
I'm interested in doing a letterbook. Tom Cooch (VT) is already on the inside with his local librarians who have given him the green light to do a letterbook. Well, I'd like to do one too. I think...

Our USA Site

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-12-01
To Giselle, Deborah and others who have had problems reading the menu options at the top of the Letterbox USA page: Try reloading the page. I tried to fix it. Let me know if that helps. You...

der mad stampers letter

Started by (FlyinRibit@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-12-01
what beautiful thoughts, thank you. pax, danielle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Web-based e-mail groups -- http://www.eGroups.com

November 1998

Our USA site

Started by (Wolfenhnd@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-30
I have a bunch of people interested in starting letterboxing. When looking at the web site I see the top box is hard to read (only half of the lettering shows on my computer). Can this be...

It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done...

Started by (Harpo73@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-30
In a message dated 98-11-30 00:11:16 EST, you write: << Gad! I do hope so ~ and hope the weather keeps cooperating! December is the goal, then.... and as for Evansville... is that also on the...

off trail/virginal California/the creek is high, etc

Started by Thom Cheney (tcgrafx@imagina.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1998-11-30 | Last message: 1998-11-30
Hey Deborah... one more condolence on behalf of your missing letterbox. I wonder if it will reappear at some point? Other than the carved stamp, the contents are fairly worthless to the casual...

Duck Creek Boxes

Started by Sheila Cunningham (sheilac@airmail.net) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-29
Sylvia, Junanne(a friend of Julies') and I went looking for all four of the Duck Creek boxes. Julie went with us but wouldn't give any clues away. First, of course, we had to have a North Texas...

Flying Erasers and other Musings

Started by (Harpo73@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-28
Letterboxers, here's a sort of eclectic answer to several posts. Sorry, haven't checked my mail in quite a while. I didn't mean to create such waves with my "official letterbox" post. It was kind...

Mass Letterboxes

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 2 messages | First message: 1998-11-28 | Last message: 2003-10-19
What a fine day. I decided to look for Bonnie's two boxes in Wendell State Park before the snow arrives. Got off early enough to make it to the Shady Glen diner in Turners Falls by 6:30 for a...

Duck Creek Series boxes #3 & #4 are out there!

Started by jjp (exposto1@airmail.net) | 2 messages | First message: 1998-11-27 | Last message: 1998-11-28
Here are the clues: Letterbox 3 in Garland,TX USA GPS Readings 32 degrees 57'10N 096 degrees 43'56W * short, pleasant walk from parking lot to letterbox * I didn't see any poison ivy when I...

Duck Creek Box #4 is out there!

Started by jjp (exposto1@airmail.net) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-27
Here's the clue! Letterbox 4 in Garland,TX USA GPS Readings 32 degrees 57'10N 096 degrees 43'56W * pleasant walk from parking lot to letterbox DIRECTIONS: Take LBJ Freeway (635) to...

Turville Pt. Letterbox GONE!

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 16 messages | First message: 1998-11-27 | Last message: 1998-12-04
MixtMedia@aol.com wrote: > ...The walk was wonderful, > but the box was gone. As in no sign of it anywhere. > Back to the drawing board..... > Deborah Well, I suppose this was bound to happen. ...

Happy Turkey Day!

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1998-11-27 | Last message: 1998-11-27
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving day. Mine was different this year as I am newly divorced (BTW, not looking for internet romance), and because most of my nuclear family travelled elsewhere,...

2 more Minnesota boxes!

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-26
I finally did it. http://www.pclink.com/elf/snelling.htm shows the map & clues. These letterboxes are airtight and watertight and flood proof. Neither sleet nor snow nor rain nor hail shall keep the...

Braintree Panther Letterbox

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 6 messages | First message: 1998-11-26 | Last message: 1998-11-30
Dear Letterboxers, Braving a sleety Thanksgiving morning and treacherous roads, I set off to the top of Braintree Hill this morning to salt the third of the Braintree/Randolph letterboxes. The...

General info

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1998-11-24 | Last message: 1998-11-25
To all concerned, There seems to be some frustration and anxiety about our progress. Many have made pointed comments to the effect: "Start boxing and stop talking!" OK, I hear that. This is...

OFFICIAL MANDITORY BOX

Started by (Harpo73@aol.com) | 25 messages | First message: 1998-11-23 | Last message: 1998-12-04
Hey Danielle, did they mention that there is a MANDITORY box? Yeah, to becom an official letterboxer you have to visit Evanston, IL and find my box. I'll be expecting you within a month. Just...

New Hampshire Contact

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-23
I e-mailed Danielle privately, not knowing that she was on the group list. But I verified that she is. Anyway, here is the copy I sent her: Hi Danielle, You happen to live in an area that is good...

letterboxing in NH?

Started by (FlyinRibit@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 1998-11-23 | Last message: 1998-11-24
Hello, I read an article about letterboxing in Dartmoor, UK. While searching for information on the Net, I E-mailed a gentleman in the UK and he gave me this address as a reference. I am interested...

Coincidence?

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-19
Is it just a coincidence that the background color on the Kids Corner is the color of honey? Hmmm... Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Web-based...

Thom - another user!

Started by Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-19
I've had 2 Pike Island boxes ready to go out for some time, but I'm worried about flooding. Maybe your fish line approach is what I need. I could tie them to a tree I suppose. Thanks for the idea...

Website graphics (map colors)

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1998-11-19
The colors on the map http://www.pclink.com/elf/lboxusa2.htm are meaningless, except that the pale gray ones are not active, yet. I'll admit, at this point in time (with only 20% of the states...

Chris Robin-Manly Man/Family Man

Started by (Harpo73@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1998-11-18 | Last message: 1998-11-19
In a message dated 98-11-15 15:48:59 EST, you write: << (though ya know, guys, the real Christopher Robin probably grew up to be one those really manly men but with maybe a sensitive side than...

Martian Letterboxer?

Started by Bonita McLaughlin (bonitasusan@hotmail.com) | 4 messages | First message: 1998-11-18 | Last message: 1998-11-24
Hello everybody. I was out of town for a few days and finally caught up with recent postings. I'm excited by all the great ideas for the Kids' Page and last night came up with one of my own: If...