> Jeremy Irish wrote:
> > 1. A few letterboxers have expressed that their letterboxes
should be on
> > their own web page, since the clues may be part of the design.

I would think, as was suggested by someone else, that the original
clue pages could still be linked to. Couldn't there be a cental
database, including fields such as name of box, state, county,
difficulty, date hidden, mystery location, owner/contact, kid
appropriateness (?), and probably others too. A search would simply
return a list of links to the clue pages. The box owner, when
submitting the clues could decide which field to populate. Some
clues (mapsurfer, drew, orient express,...) will not lend themselves
to be databased, but most will.

> > 2. Letterboxes are considered "copyrighted material", so cannot be
> > centralized into one database.

I don't think that would be a concern if the clues aren't copied or
changed. If the owner submits fields and links to the database, I
can't imagine anyone objecting.

> > 3. A few letterboxers fear others "profiting" from their
letterboxes (by
> > providing advertising, selling a book, etc.)

www.letterboxing.org is ad-free so if the database resides there,
there shouldn't be any concern.

> >
> > (did I miss anything?)
>

I think you correctly identified the issues that were raised at the
time. As stated above, I think they're fairly simple to get around,
although I lack the technical expertise to do so.

Eric, Jeremy, Jay, others?, does any of this make sense?

Lone Wolf