The letterboxing website sucks. |Nothing for virginia appears where it says
it is. . I am going to stick with geocaching. Maybe one of these days if
the letter boxing site ever gets its shit together I may try again. this is
just too adgavating.
Websitre sucks
8 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-12-26
Websitre sucks
From: Daryl (gono@ntelos.net) |
Date: 2002-12-26 22:09:16 UTC-05:00
Re: [LbNA] Websitre sucks
From: (tehutika@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-12-26 22:35:43 UTC-05:00
Greetings,
<<The letterboxing website sucks. |Nothing for virginia appears where it says
it is. . I am going to stick with geocaching. Maybe one of these days if
the letter boxing site ever gets its shit together I may try again. this is
just too adgavating.>>
It worked for me. I'm looking at Virginia clues right now. Don't know what the problem is for you.
Mike S.
<<The letterboxing website sucks. |Nothing for virginia appears where it says
it is. . I am going to stick with geocaching. Maybe one of these days if
the letter boxing site ever gets its shit together I may try again. this is
just too adgavating.>>
It worked for me. I'm looking at Virginia clues right now. Don't know what the problem is for you.
Mike S.
Re: [LbNA] Websitre sucks
From: Alafair (ms_alafair@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2002-12-26 20:49:54 UTC-08:00
I'm very sorry that you are having problems locating letterboxes in your area. However, you will find nearly everyone in the letterboxing community more than helpful if a request is made politely. We have GREAT webmasters who work very diligently as volunteers to update their respective areas. As someone else said, perhaps the problem is yours. You seem very quick to blame others and to cop a bad attitude to boot. Posts written like yours will likely result in your receiving no help. We are a nice group of people here and we do not appreciate your profanity and lack of courtesy.
Linda Kazel a/k/a Alafair
Daryl <gono@ntelos.net> wrote:
The letterboxing website sucks. |Nothing for virginia appears where it says
it is. . I am going to stick with geocaching. Maybe one of these days if
the letter boxing site ever gets its shit together I may try again. this is
just too adgavating.
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Re: Websitre sucks
From: rscarpen (RiskyNil@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2002-12-27 09:03:02 UTC
> The letterboxing website sucks. I am going to stick with
> geocaching.
It's probably just as well. Geocachers and letterboxers don't tend
to mix anyhow. But I'm baffled about your professed desire for
mentally stimulating letterboxing clues but are confounded by
figuring out where the letterboxes are in the first place.
In addition, I'm baffled why you feel the Letterboxing North America
letterboxing website is so agrivating that you should abandon
letterboxing completely. The two are complementary, but letterboxing
is not dependent on this website for its success. Many clues are not
posted on the web at all, and half the challenge in finding the
letterbox is simply trying to aquire the clue! In addition, there
are other, alternate, letterboxing websites, along with posted clues
that may fit your liking more.
And finally, burning bridges on your way out with insults and foul
language isn't going to accomplish anything but give you--and by
extention geocachers which you seem to be representing--a bad image.
Letterboxing isn't for everyone, and there's nothing wrong with
that. If you feel geocaching is more your style, you scoot along and
we'll manage without you. We've managed without you so far (quite
successfully, in my opinion), and we'll continue to do so without
you. I won't be losing any sleep over your decision.
-- Ryan
> geocaching.
It's probably just as well. Geocachers and letterboxers don't tend
to mix anyhow. But I'm baffled about your professed desire for
mentally stimulating letterboxing clues but are confounded by
figuring out where the letterboxes are in the first place.
In addition, I'm baffled why you feel the Letterboxing North America
letterboxing website is so agrivating that you should abandon
letterboxing completely. The two are complementary, but letterboxing
is not dependent on this website for its success. Many clues are not
posted on the web at all, and half the challenge in finding the
letterbox is simply trying to aquire the clue! In addition, there
are other, alternate, letterboxing websites, along with posted clues
that may fit your liking more.
And finally, burning bridges on your way out with insults and foul
language isn't going to accomplish anything but give you--and by
extention geocachers which you seem to be representing--a bad image.
Letterboxing isn't for everyone, and there's nothing wrong with
that. If you feel geocaching is more your style, you scoot along and
we'll manage without you. We've managed without you so far (quite
successfully, in my opinion), and we'll continue to do so without
you. I won't be losing any sleep over your decision.
-- Ryan
Re: Websitre sucks
From: gramnanahowd (Claudia.Howd@verizon.net) |
Date: 2002-12-27 23:31:48 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "rscarpen "
wrote:
> >
>
> In addition, I'm baffled why you feel the Letterboxing North
America
> letterboxing website is so agrivating that you should abandon
> letterboxing completely. The two are complementary, but
letterboxing
> is not dependent on this website for its success. Many clues are
not
> posted on the web at all, and half the challenge in finding the
> letterbox is simply trying to aquire the clue! In addition, there
> are other, alternate, letterboxing websites, along with posted
clues
> that may fit your liking more.
>
> Ryan, could you give me an idea of other websites that are helpful
in the Pacific Northwest? I am new at this (and geocaching too).
Maybe when I get deeper in them, I will choose one or the other. I
don't have a GPS myself, and I think I would rather get the clue and
go for it. Any help I could get would be appreciated. Claudia
(gramnanahowd)
> >
>
> In addition, I'm baffled why you feel the Letterboxing North
America
> letterboxing website is so agrivating that you should abandon
> letterboxing completely. The two are complementary, but
letterboxing
> is not dependent on this website for its success. Many clues are
not
> posted on the web at all, and half the challenge in finding the
> letterbox is simply trying to aquire the clue! In addition, there
> are other, alternate, letterboxing websites, along with posted
clues
> that may fit your liking more.
>
> Ryan, could you give me an idea of other websites that are helpful
in the Pacific Northwest? I am new at this (and geocaching too).
Maybe when I get deeper in them, I will choose one or the other. I
don't have a GPS myself, and I think I would rather get the clue and
go for it. Any help I could get would be appreciated. Claudia
(gramnanahowd)
Re: Websitre sucks
From: rscarpen (RiskyNil@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2002-12-28 01:53:10 UTC
> Ryan, could you give me an idea of other websites that are helpful
> in the Pacific Northwest?
Mischief keeps a list of Washington state letterboxes, along with any
mystery boxes that might be in the area. The list is at
http://home1.gte.net/res0fpfm/letterboxes/wa_boxes.htm
There's also a list with a bunch of renegade women flapping around on
the International Artgirl Letterboxing Cabal (IALC) which I
discovered while following one of the clues that turns out not to be
posted on the Letterboxing North America website. But you need to be
a girl (which I'm not) and you need to be a member (which I'm not) to
actually read the clue, so in that case you break down and find
someone that can print the clues out for you. =)
Many other local letterboxes have their own websites which list their
clues (including myself), but the clues are usually listed on LBNA as
well (most of Bill's aren't, if I recall correctly). Here are a few
that I know about:
Mischief: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bmischiefsletterboxes
Amanda from Seattle: http://www.geocities.com/samanark
Eliza B: http://www.moderngypsy.com/green/lb
Candlelight: http://weatherwitch.net/candlelight2
Bill Burke: http://folks.harbornet.com/bburk/letterbox/bookofclues.htm
Brett & Penny: http://home.agalis.net/bcostley/Letterbox
My own (highly recommended!): http://www.geocities.com/rscarpen/Lb
> Any help I could get would be appreciated.
The Letterboxing North America website is a great resource, but I've
started creating several "self-helf" kind of pages for carving
stamps, stamping with multiple colors, creating letterboxes (Mischief
has a nice page with picture from when she was creating her first
letterbox, as I recall too which could be useful), and a newbie FAQ
that I felt should have been included on LBNA but wasn't. =) So you
can check out out on my website.
And finally, the BEST and FUNNEST way to learn about letterboxing--
just go out and try it. You wouldn't believe all the imaginative
things people do with their boxes!
-- Ryan
> in the Pacific Northwest?
Mischief keeps a list of Washington state letterboxes, along with any
mystery boxes that might be in the area. The list is at
http://home1.gte.net/res0fpfm/letterboxes/wa_boxes.htm
There's also a list with a bunch of renegade women flapping around on
the International Artgirl Letterboxing Cabal (IALC) which I
discovered while following one of the clues that turns out not to be
posted on the Letterboxing North America website. But you need to be
a girl (which I'm not) and you need to be a member (which I'm not) to
actually read the clue, so in that case you break down and find
someone that can print the clues out for you. =)
Many other local letterboxes have their own websites which list their
clues (including myself), but the clues are usually listed on LBNA as
well (most of Bill's aren't, if I recall correctly). Here are a few
that I know about:
Mischief: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bmischiefsletterboxes
Amanda from Seattle: http://www.geocities.com/samanark
Eliza B: http://www.moderngypsy.com/green/lb
Candlelight: http://weatherwitch.net/candlelight2
Bill Burke: http://folks.harbornet.com/bburk/letterbox/bookofclues.htm
Brett & Penny: http://home.agalis.net/bcostley/Letterbox
My own (highly recommended!): http://www.geocities.com/rscarpen/Lb
> Any help I could get would be appreciated.
The Letterboxing North America website is a great resource, but I've
started creating several "self-helf" kind of pages for carving
stamps, stamping with multiple colors, creating letterboxes (Mischief
has a nice page with picture from when she was creating her first
letterbox, as I recall too which could be useful), and a newbie FAQ
that I felt should have been included on LBNA but wasn't. =) So you
can check out out on my website.
And finally, the BEST and FUNNEST way to learn about letterboxing--
just go out and try it. You wouldn't believe all the imaginative
things people do with their boxes!
-- Ryan
Re: [LbNA] Websitre sucks
From: Sandi Mandi (sexygirlsandi@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2002-12-28 02:58:16 UTC
It would be nice if the Site was a little more the way of
Geocaching BUT, I can't begin to think how much it would cost to
do a website like geocaching.com. This thing about Letterboxing.org is
there is no income to help pay for the site!! Geocaching.com sells (I
bought for my Hubby) GPS's and other stuff. They also sell Geobugs (Which if
you look) there is a ton of them out their ($ for $20) so
there is alot of money in those to help pay for the website.
If you talk to anyone who has a website, They will tell you that
cost can be high because the you pay for the amount of Info moved
(I.E. Trasfer). So for what it is, Letterboxing.org does not even
come close to sucking!!!! This site (With it's few flaws) is done
very very very well.
Also I think that the people who are Letterboxers tend to say a little
closer (In Contact) then the peopel that do Geocaching. (We now do both)
And like they say! If you don't like the mouse trap, Just try and
build a better one!!!
I say Good Luck!!! (LOL)
SBT
>From: Daryl
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LbNA] Websitre sucks
>Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:09:16 -0500
>
>The letterboxing website sucks. |Nothing for virginia appears where it says
>it is. . I am going to stick with geocaching. Maybe one of these days if
>the letter boxing site ever gets its shit together I may try again. this is
>just too adgavating.
>
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Re: Websitre sucks
From: gramnanahowd (Claudia.Howd@verizon.net) |
Date: 2002-12-28 04:57:27 UTC
Ryan, this information is of tremendous help. I have read most of
your pages in the past and will reread them now. Thank you for all the
sites to check out. Claudia
---
> Mischief keeps a list of Washington state letterboxes, along with
any
> mystery boxes that might be in the area. The list is at
> http://home1.gte.net/res0fpfm/letterboxes/wa_boxes.htm
>
> There's also a list with a bunch of renegade women flapping around
on
> the International Artgirl Letterboxing Cabal (IALC) which I
> discovered while following one of the clues that turns out not to
be
> posted on the Letterboxing North America website. But you need to
be
> a girl (which I'm not) and you need to be a member (which I'm not)
to
> actually read the clue, so in that case you break down and find
> someone that can print the clues out for you. =)
>
> Many other local letterboxes have their own websites which list
their
> clues (including myself), but the clues are usually listed on LBNA
as
> well (most of Bill's aren't, if I recall correctly). Here are a
few
> that I know about:
>
> Mischief: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bmischiefsletterboxes
> Amanda from Seattle: http://www.geocities.com/samanark
> Eliza B: http://www.moderngypsy.com/green/lb
> Candlelight: http://weatherwitch.net/candlelight2
> Bill Burke: http://folks.harbornet.com/bburk/let
terbox/bookofclues.htm
> Brett & Penny: http://home.agalis.net/bcostley/Letterbox
> My own (highly recommended!): http://www.geocities.com/rscarpen/Lb
>
> > Any help I could get would be appreciated.
>
> The Letterboxing North America website is a great resource, but
I've
> started creating several "self-helf" kind of pages for carving
> stamps, stamping with multiple colors, creating letterboxes
(Mischief
> has a nice page with picture from when she was creating her first
> letterbox, as I recall too which could be useful), and a newbie FAQ
> that I felt should have been included on LBNA but wasn't. =) So
you
> can check out out on my website.
>
> And finally, the BEST and FUNNEST way to learn about letterboxing--
> just go out and try it. You wouldn't believe all the imaginative
> things people do with their boxes!
>
> -- Ryan
your pages in the past and will reread them now. Thank you for all the
sites to check out. Claudia
---
> Mischief keeps a list of Washington state letterboxes, along with
any
> mystery boxes that might be in the area. The list is at
> http://home1.gte.net/res0fpfm/letterboxes/wa_boxes.htm
>
> There's also a list with a bunch of renegade women flapping around
on
> the International Artgirl Letterboxing Cabal (IALC) which I
> discovered while following one of the clues that turns out not to
be
> posted on the Letterboxing North America website. But you need to
be
> a girl (which I'm not) and you need to be a member (which I'm not)
to
> actually read the clue, so in that case you break down and find
> someone that can print the clues out for you. =)
>
> Many other local letterboxes have their own websites which list
their
> clues (including myself), but the clues are usually listed on LBNA
as
> well (most of Bill's aren't, if I recall correctly). Here are a
few
> that I know about:
>
> Mischief: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bmischiefsletterboxes
> Amanda from Seattle: http://www.geocities.com/samanark
> Eliza B: http://www.moderngypsy.com/green/lb
> Candlelight: http://weatherwitch.net/candlelight2
> Bill Burke: http://folks.harbornet.com/bburk/let
terbox/bookofclues.htm
> Brett & Penny: http://home.agalis.net/bcostley/Letterbox
> My own (highly recommended!): http://www.geocities.com/rscarpen/Lb
>
> > Any help I could get would be appreciated.
>
> The Letterboxing North America website is a great resource, but
I've
> started creating several "self-helf" kind of pages for carving
> stamps, stamping with multiple colors, creating letterboxes
(Mischief
> has a nice page with picture from when she was creating her first
> letterbox, as I recall too which could be useful), and a newbie FAQ
> that I felt should have been included on LBNA but wasn't. =) So
you
> can check out out on my website.
>
> And finally, the BEST and FUNNEST way to learn about letterboxing--
> just go out and try it. You wouldn't believe all the imaginative
> things people do with their boxes!
>
> -- Ryan