When the NewAge talk list was formed, I actually thought it was a
great idea. The folks who like the concept of a database would have
their own venue and those of us who don't would be uninvolved. I
naively assumed that the information used on their list would come
from their members and would be a way for them to report on their
boxes and my boxes would be free from database entries. I assumed
adding a "no database" type of message to each of my clues would cover
the situtation.
However, it now seems that the LbNA talk list is the source for some
of their entries. I emailed the people I knew who were listed as last
finders on my boxes. Only one of them was an official member on the
NewAge list and thus only his two entries have been successfully
removed. NewAge members are unable to remove their own entries.
Another person who requested that their two entries be removed was
refused. This person has never been a member of that list, never made
an entry to that list and never made the comments in the "comments"
field that were attributed to him on my Hog Lake Plateau box. This
person only reported on this box on the LbNA talk list and in private
email to me.
In the past, I used to love to hear about peoples' adventures when
hunting for letterboxes. It is one of my great pleasures in this
hobby. Now, I will feel a sense of dread every time a box report on
one of my babies appears here, not knowing if it will end up as an
unwanted database entry, especially one with a false comment. Funhog
NewAge Db source material
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Started on 2003-12-01
NewAge Db source material
From: funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2003-12-01 03:06:17 UTC
Re: NewAge Db source material
From: NeverEnuff (neverenuff1969@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-12-01 03:29:35 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "funhog1" wrote:
>I emailed the people I knew who were listed as last
> finders on my boxes.
How do you know who the last finder listed is when you're not even a
member of NewAge? Do you have to hide behind an alias to watch your
boxes?
Also, any member of NewAge can tell you that we no longer have the
last finder field in our database.
<<>>
Yahoo doesn't offer that option. It's either only moderators who can
remove entries, or anyone can remove entries.
> Another person who requested that their two entries be removed was
refused. This person has never been a member of that list, never made
an entry to that list and never made the comments in the "comments"
field that were attributed to him on my Hog Lake Plateau box. This
person only reported on this box on the LbNA talk list and in private
email to me. >>
If they were never a member, they couldn't have made an entry into
our database. Therefore, they have no entries to be removed.
Also, "Bonnie" can not be listed as a finder in our database since,
like I said earlier, we don't have finders listed.
We don't go around looking for sitreps to add info to our database.
Any box in the database is one that a member has planted themselves,
or one that they've found.
NeverEnuff
>I emailed the people I knew who were listed as last
> finders on my boxes.
How do you know who the last finder listed is when you're not even a
member of NewAge? Do you have to hide behind an alias to watch your
boxes?
Also, any member of NewAge can tell you that we no longer have the
last finder field in our database.
<<
Yahoo doesn't offer that option. It's either only moderators who can
remove entries, or anyone can remove entries.
> Another person who requested that their two entries be removed was
refused. This person has never been a member of that list, never made
an entry to that list and never made the comments in the "comments"
field that were attributed to him on my Hog Lake Plateau box. This
person only reported on this box on the LbNA talk list and in private
email to me. >>
If they were never a member, they couldn't have made an entry into
our database. Therefore, they have no entries to be removed.
Also, "Bonnie" can not be listed as a finder in our database since,
like I said earlier, we don't have finders listed.
We don't go around looking for sitreps to add info to our database.
Any box in the database is one that a member has planted themselves,
or one that they've found.
NeverEnuff
Re: NewAge Db source material
From: funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2003-12-01 03:57:01 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "NeverEnuff"
> Also, any member of NewAge can tell you that we no longer have the
> last finder field in our database.
>
Fearing that I may be extinguishing the life of yet another of my
feline friends, I feel compelled to say that I am aware that this
information was deleted after the recent database debate started.
However, I was given the information regarding dates, finders names
and comments long before the recent threads, at a time when all of
these fields were in place. Poisoning is not a possibility.
Please! If you would just get rid of my boxes from your page, none of
this frustrating exchange would be necessary. Funhog
> Also, any member of NewAge can tell you that we no longer have the
> last finder field in our database.
>
Fearing that I may be extinguishing the life of yet another of my
feline friends, I feel compelled to say that I am aware that this
information was deleted after the recent database debate started.
However, I was given the information regarding dates, finders names
and comments long before the recent threads, at a time when all of
these fields were in place. Poisoning is not a possibility.
Please! If you would just get rid of my boxes from your page, none of
this frustrating exchange would be necessary. Funhog