To all:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7370/index.html
This is a link to a site which we have been invited to link to
by Mr. John Finch, a british letterboxer. I'm bothered by
the fact that I get an advertisement every time I click on
something there. What's up with that? Do these guys get
kick-backs from the people doing the adverts?
I spend so much time closing boxes tht I am distracted from
the information there. How can that be of benefit? And what's
worse is that I don't see any clues there. I must admit its
beautifully done though.
I don't know, maybe I'm just grumpy or something. Will you all
help me to look at this?
I have also been contacted by a repesentative of Eastern Mountain
Sports who wants to talk about sharing links. No doubt they are
looking for a way to augment their business and they will probably
be willing to pay us something in exchange for using our site.
I said, "pay us something". I'm not out for anything myself.
I'm firm on that. This site is yours/ours. Its your energy and
creativity that make it what it is.
I know we had discussions about recouping costs if we felt it
were to become necessary. (These discussions took place last summer
for those of you who have joined more recently.) In any case, is
it necessary at this time to anyone's knowledge for us to recoup
any costs? I've spent a few bucks on my boxes (like you all have)
and I've kicked in for a GPS unit, but I see no need to recoup any
costs at this time.
I really like the fact that we are like a "mom and pop" organization.
It seems to me that we are made up primarily of kind-hearted souls
willing to give of their time and talents for the mutual benefit of
this hobby. This insulates us from commercial enterprise. Perhaps we
will NEVER need to do that. We drew a line in the sand last year with
ILC - made a firm choice I think. And I think we should stick with
that unless there is some preeminent reason someone is aware of that
would cause us to change it.
Comments welcome.
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To link or NOT?
18 messages in this thread |
Started on 1999-02-23
[L-USA] To link or NOT?
From: Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) |
Date: 1999-02-23 23:01:40 UTC-06:00
[L-USA] Re: To link or NOT?
From: Adrian Williams (havefeet@letterboxing.freeserve.co.uk) |
Date: 1999-02-24 06:28:03 UTC
Hi All
I had the same request yesterday and have replyed no. He has
some clues displayed that belong to friends of mine who i can not belive
gave them to him. I am in the process of checking it out.
Adrian
Have feet will Travel
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Servatius
To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
Date: 24 February 1999 05:02
Subject: [L-USA] To link or NOT?
>To all:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7370/index.html
>
>This is a link to a site which we have been invited to link to
>by Mr. John Finch, a british letterboxer. I'm bothered by
>the fact that I get an advertisement every time I click on
>something there. What's up with that? Do these guys get
>kick-backs from the people doing the adverts?
>I spend so much time closing boxes tht I am distracted from
>the information there. How can that be of benefit? And what's
>worse is that I don't see any clues there. I must admit its
>beautifully done though.
>
>I don't know, maybe I'm just grumpy or something. Will you all
>help me to look at this?
>
>I have also been contacted by a repesentative of Eastern Mountain
>Sports who wants to talk about sharing links. No doubt they are
>looking for a way to augment their business and they will probably
>be willing to pay us something in exchange for using our site.
>I said, "pay us something". I'm not out for anything myself.
>I'm firm on that. This site is yours/ours. Its your energy and
>creativity that make it what it is.
>
>I know we had discussions about recouping costs if we felt it
>were to become necessary. (These discussions took place last summer
>for those of you who have joined more recently.) In any case, is
>it necessary at this time to anyone's knowledge for us to recoup
>any costs? I've spent a few bucks on my boxes (like you all have)
>and I've kicked in for a GPS unit, but I see no need to recoup any
>costs at this time.
>
>I really like the fact that we are like a "mom and pop" organization.
>It seems to me that we are made up primarily of kind-hearted souls
>willing to give of their time and talents for the mutual benefit of
>this hobby. This insulates us from commercial enterprise. Perhaps we
>will NEVER need to do that. We drew a line in the sand last year with
>ILC - made a firm choice I think. And I think we should stick with
>that unless there is some preeminent reason someone is aware of that
>would cause us to change it.
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Talk List
>mailto:letterbox-usa@egroups.com
>
>Dan Servatius
>mailto:elf@pclink.com
>
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I had the same request yesterday and have replyed no. He has
some clues displayed that belong to friends of mine who i can not belive
gave them to him. I am in the process of checking it out.
Adrian
Have feet will Travel
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Servatius
To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
Date: 24 February 1999 05:02
Subject: [L-USA] To link or NOT?
>To all:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7370/index.html
>
>This is a link to a site which we have been invited to link to
>by Mr. John Finch, a british letterboxer. I'm bothered by
>the fact that I get an advertisement every time I click on
>something there. What's up with that? Do these guys get
>kick-backs from the people doing the adverts?
>I spend so much time closing boxes tht I am distracted from
>the information there. How can that be of benefit? And what's
>worse is that I don't see any clues there. I must admit its
>beautifully done though.
>
>I don't know, maybe I'm just grumpy or something. Will you all
>help me to look at this?
>
>I have also been contacted by a repesentative of Eastern Mountain
>Sports who wants to talk about sharing links. No doubt they are
>looking for a way to augment their business and they will probably
>be willing to pay us something in exchange for using our site.
>I said, "pay us something". I'm not out for anything myself.
>I'm firm on that. This site is yours/ours. Its your energy and
>creativity that make it what it is.
>
>I know we had discussions about recouping costs if we felt it
>were to become necessary. (These discussions took place last summer
>for those of you who have joined more recently.) In any case, is
>it necessary at this time to anyone's knowledge for us to recoup
>any costs? I've spent a few bucks on my boxes (like you all have)
>and I've kicked in for a GPS unit, but I see no need to recoup any
>costs at this time.
>
>I really like the fact that we are like a "mom and pop" organization.
>It seems to me that we are made up primarily of kind-hearted souls
>willing to give of their time and talents for the mutual benefit of
>this hobby. This insulates us from commercial enterprise. Perhaps we
>will NEVER need to do that. We drew a line in the sand last year with
>ILC - made a firm choice I think. And I think we should stick with
>that unless there is some preeminent reason someone is aware of that
>would cause us to change it.
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Talk List
>mailto:letterbox-usa@egroups.com
>
>Dan Servatius
>mailto:elf@pclink.com
>
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[L-USA] Re: To link or NOT?
From: (Letterboxr@aol.com) |
Date: 1999-02-24 01:35:10 UTC-05:00
elf@pclink.com writes:
> http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7370/index.html
>
> This is a link to a site which we have been invited to link to
> by Mr. John Finch, a british letterboxer. I'm bothered by
> the fact that I get an advertisement every time I click on
> something there. What's up with that? Do these guys get
> kick-backs from the people doing the adverts?
> I spend so much time closing boxes that I am distracted from
> the information there. How can that be of benefit? ...I must
> admit its beautifully done though.
I agree with Dan, when he points out that this page is beautifully done.
Furthermore, I hate Geocities. They let people have free web pages, but the
utility they provide to help them author their pages always sticks the code in
that makes the advertisement pop up. Yuck!!
The HTML code can easily be altered to make the pop-ups go away, but I'm
guessing that Geocities probably doesn't allow you to FTP the altered files to
their server, since every Geocities website I've ever seen has these damned
things on it. Does anyone know if my guess is correct? I'm sure that if we
could figure out a way to help Mr. Finch get rid of the cursed adverts, he
would be grateful. He is not getting anything for the ads, except for his
free web pages.
I must admit, on my own website I have refused to add links to otherwise nice
pages simply because I couldn't stand those stupid pop-up ads. This is a nice
site, though. I'm tempted to vote that we include the link, despite the ads.
-- Mitch
> http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7370/index.html
>
> This is a link to a site which we have been invited to link to
> by Mr. John Finch, a british letterboxer. I'm bothered by
> the fact that I get an advertisement every time I click on
> something there. What's up with that? Do these guys get
> kick-backs from the people doing the adverts?
> I spend so much time closing boxes that I am distracted from
> the information there. How can that be of benefit? ...I must
> admit its beautifully done though.
I agree with Dan, when he points out that this page is beautifully done.
Furthermore, I hate Geocities. They let people have free web pages, but the
utility they provide to help them author their pages always sticks the code in
that makes the advertisement pop up. Yuck!!
The HTML code can easily be altered to make the pop-ups go away, but I'm
guessing that Geocities probably doesn't allow you to FTP the altered files to
their server, since every Geocities website I've ever seen has these damned
things on it. Does anyone know if my guess is correct? I'm sure that if we
could figure out a way to help Mr. Finch get rid of the cursed adverts, he
would be grateful. He is not getting anything for the ads, except for his
free web pages.
I must admit, on my own website I have refused to add links to otherwise nice
pages simply because I couldn't stand those stupid pop-up ads. This is a nice
site, though. I'm tempted to vote that we include the link, despite the ads.
-- Mitch