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GPSr
Geocacher
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
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Location: St. Louis Park,MN
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: Logged in to view cache locations? |
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I see TPTB added a new item to cache pages:
You must be logged in to
view the Location Information
for this Cache. It's free!
What's are they up to now, selling valid email addresses? |
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pto
Geocacher
Joined: 18 Mar 2004
Posts: 136
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I read about it on the gc.com forums http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=111467
Where Jeremy says
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That is one benefit, but it has also been designed to combat the increased scraping abuse that we've had on the web site.
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uh-huh......[/i] |
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s4xton
Past MnGCA Board
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Posts: 1070
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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That is 100% a lie. What's to stop a potential scraper from making an account? Or 50 of them?
I hate liars, and I hate Jeremy because he's full of them.
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Pear Head
Past MnGCA President
Joined: 04 Apr 2004
Posts: 5594
Location: north of Duluth
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| pto wrote: |
Where Jeremy says
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That is one benefit, but it has also been designed to combat the increased scraping abuse that we've had on the web site.
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For clarification, Jeremy is responding to this:
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| That's a good step in the right direction. It used to be anyone can look up a cache without any kind of account. It also gurantees that our local cache maggot has an account now. That's a start. |
It may be a way to track people that steal caches (as opposed to having to make them members-only to see who looks at the page).
If you are a valid user, who cares if you view a cache page or not? It may cut down on the number of new people coming in as they may not go through the bother of creating a gc.com account before they hunt, so they won't hunt, so they'll miss out on the fun. |
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