Dear Eric,
You wrote...
> I was just checking the LBNA site noticed the pictures and stamps from
> the 1999 Vermont Letterboxing Convention. Pretty cool! How about some
> names with the pictures for those of us in letterboxing impoverished
> areas? I have only had the chance to meet a couple of letterboxers
> personally (at a stamp convention down here last year). I am curious if
> anyone in the pictures is one of the long time participants from back in
> the early tumultuous days of the hobby here?
>
Glad to provide some names for you. Most of the people present at our
Vermont gathering last November were definite or relative old-timers.
#1: Bonnie Sennott, Erik Dais
#2: Erik & Susan Davis
#3: Randy Hall, Bonnie Sennott, Erik Davis, David Cooch, Sandy
Cooch, Tom Cooch, John De Wolf, Susan Davis
#4: John De Wolf, Kim Mako
#5: Richard (from New Hampshire)
#6: Royce (Kim's boy friend)
#7: Tom Cooch, ?? (from Valley Quest - sorry, ??)
#8: Randy Hall
#9: Anne Cooch, Sandy Cooch
#10: Tom Cooch, Sandy Cooch
#11: Tom Cooch, Rae Record
#12: Rae Record
#13: John De Wolf, I think.
> I was also pleased to see the link to the ILC site working again (since I
> have the site back online). Much appreciated! Now that I have a little
> time to work on it, hopefully there will soon be something new of
> interest to see there. My time remains limited so it will primarily be
> constructed as a folks can add their own links and clues project.
>
Glad the link is working. I noticed that the link from your site to
Letterboxing North America has a glitch. Maybe it needs the www. at
the beginning? I can't tell.
> Last year I mentioned that I had arranged to have my mother-in-law hide a
> box in England for me. However I never got around to publishing the clues
> (and I caught the deserved grief for my procrastination from the inlaws).
> Sorry Graham :-( . I will be publishing the clues on the ILC site,
> hopefully later this week when new features allow for that. I would also
> be more than willing to let anyone else publish the clues anywhere they
> wish. However I am not sure if it would be appropriate for the LBNA site,
> as the Brits would probably be quite offended at the notion of England
> being an extension of North America ;-)
>
Look forward to seeing your clues. We will get across the pond at
some time, I have no doubt.
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings Ph.D.
>
Best,
Tom Cooch
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P13F70
"The game is afoot!"
How about some names with those pics?
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 2000-06-04
Re: [LbNA] How about some names with those pics?
From: Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) |
Date: 2000-06-04 18:59:04 UTC
How about some names with those pics?
From: Eric Mings (elm@ao.net) |
Date: 2000-06-04 18:36:10 UTC-04:00
I was just checking the LBNA site noticed the pictures and stamps from
the 1999 Vermont Letterboxing Convention. Pretty cool! How about some
names with the pictures for those of us in letterboxing impoverished
areas? I have only had the chance to meet a couple of letterboxers
personally (at a stamp convention down here last year). I am curious if
anyone in the pictures is one of the long time participants from back in
the early tumultuous days of the hobby here?
I was also pleased to see the link to the ILC site working again (since I
have the site back online). Much appreciated! Now that I have a little
time to work on it, hopefully there will soon be something new of
interest to see there. My time remains limited so it will primarily be
constructed as a folks can add their own links and clues project.
Last year I mentioned that I had arranged to have my mother-in-law hide a
box in England for me. However I never got around to publishing the clues
(and I caught the deserved grief for my procrastination from the inlaws).
Sorry Graham :-( . I will be publishing the clues on the ILC site,
hopefully later this week when new features allow for that. I would also
be more than willing to let anyone else publish the clues anywhere they
wish. However I am not sure if it would be appropriate for the LBNA site,
as the Brits would probably be quite offended at the notion of England
being an extension of North America ;-)
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
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Interested in Letterboxing?
Don't know what it is? :-I
Check it out:
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the 1999 Vermont Letterboxing Convention. Pretty cool! How about some
names with the pictures for those of us in letterboxing impoverished
areas? I have only had the chance to meet a couple of letterboxers
personally (at a stamp convention down here last year). I am curious if
anyone in the pictures is one of the long time participants from back in
the early tumultuous days of the hobby here?
I was also pleased to see the link to the ILC site working again (since I
have the site back online). Much appreciated! Now that I have a little
time to work on it, hopefully there will soon be something new of
interest to see there. My time remains limited so it will primarily be
constructed as a folks can add their own links and clues project.
Last year I mentioned that I had arranged to have my mother-in-law hide a
box in England for me. However I never got around to publishing the clues
(and I caught the deserved grief for my procrastination from the inlaws).
Sorry Graham :-( . I will be publishing the clues on the ILC site,
hopefully later this week when new features allow for that. I would also
be more than willing to let anyone else publish the clues anywhere they
wish. However I am not sure if it would be appropriate for the LBNA site,
as the Brits would probably be quite offended at the notion of England
being an extension of North America ;-)
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
*******************************************
Interested in Letterboxing?
Don't know what it is? :-I
Check it out:
*******************************************
Re: [LbNA] How about some names with those pics?
From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) |
Date: 2000-06-04 19:17:33 UTC-04:00
> I was also pleased to see the link to the ILC site working again (since I
> have the site back online).
Ironically, the link to letterboxing.org from
http://www.letterboxing.com/links.html doesn't work :-)
(looks like the problem is a mix of absolute and relative links)
Not that it matters really, letterboxing is about hunting for and discovering
things that aren't apparent, and that can of course mean the clues and
letterboxing sites as well ... with all the technology potentially at
our (and box hunters') disposal, I think we run the risk of taking some
of the charm out of the hobby ... but that's just me, I suppose.
Oh well, enough editorializing :)
--
randy "the mapsurfer"
http://www.letterboxing.org
Re: [LbNA] How about some names with those pics?
From: Eric Mings (elm@ao.net) |
Date: 2000-06-04 19:30:07 UTC-04:00
>Ironically, the link to letterboxing.org from
>http://www.letterboxing.com/links.html doesn't work :-)
>(looks like the problem is a mix of absolute and relative links)
Randy,
Yeah that is a screwup. It works now. Rather embarrassing. I had been
working on it because my links page is displayed in a frame and the LBNA
site apparently has been designed to wipe out the history in Navigator.
Consequently once someone clicked on that link in my site, you could
never get anything but the LBNA page by using the back and forward
buttons on the browser. I forgot I was trying to deal with that. I fixed
it by forcing the LBNA site to load a new browser window when the link
was displayed. Probably none of my business, but you might want to
consider whether you want the site to hose the history in Netscape, it
really aggravates a lot of people when they can't leave a site by using
the back button.
Hopefully no one will have to hunt your site from my link anymore ;-) It
should work now, tell me if there is a problem. Thanks.
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
>http://www.letterboxing.com/links.html doesn't work :-)
>(looks like the problem is a mix of absolute and relative links)
Randy,
Yeah that is a screwup. It works now. Rather embarrassing. I had been
working on it because my links page is displayed in a frame and the LBNA
site apparently has been designed to wipe out the history in Navigator.
Consequently once someone clicked on that link in my site, you could
never get anything but the LBNA page by using the back and forward
buttons on the browser. I forgot I was trying to deal with that. I fixed
it by forcing the LBNA site to load a new browser window when the link
was displayed. Probably none of my business, but you might want to
consider whether you want the site to hose the history in Netscape, it
really aggravates a lot of people when they can't leave a site by using
the back button.
Hopefully no one will have to hunt your site from my link anymore ;-) It
should work now, tell me if there is a problem. Thanks.
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [LbNA] How about some names with those pics?
From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) |
Date: 2000-06-04 19:34:44 UTC-04:00
> it by forcing the LBNA site to load a new browser window when the link
> was displayed. Probably none of my business, but you might want to
> consider whether you want the site to hose the history in Netscape, it
> really aggravates a lot of people when they can't leave a site by using
> the back button.
That will be fixed soon. (BTW, it doesn't actually hose the history -- to
avoid it, all one has to do is hold down the back button in netscape and
pick the site you want, but it can be annoying I suppose if you don't know
about that)
Oh well, enough technology :-)
--
randy "your resident luddite mapsurfer"
http://www.letterboxing.org