Re: [gpsstash] Re: Do we want a usenet group? (RFD)
> [...] it might attract people who are > more interested in raiding caches for whatever might be > valuable in them, instead of people more interested in the > hunt itself or exchanging valuables.
As a member of the "metal detector crowd", I can say that I don't believe this concern would be a problem in practice. The "MDC" is not a group of mindless "raiders", but if they were, they obviously would not be pillaging geocaches for their "valuables". Besides, any treasure hunter worth his or her salt already knows about geocaching, has already made an evaluation as to whether raiding abandoned geocaches on public land is worth the time and expense, and thus would not be affected by such publicity. (And in all seriousness, this would only be a problem if there were _two_ items of value in a geocache, or if the finder arrived naked ... :-))
> I'm not sure it will be possible to come up with a sensible > short name that would be attractive simultaneously to > geocachers, letterboxers, and confluence hunters.
I thought that this was perhaps too obvious to state, but another humble suggestion would be to let other groups decide the name and hierarchy of their group(s) for themselves, if they want such. Keep in mind that some geocachers do not want to deal with stamp art, cryptic clues, and confluence points without stuff at the end of the hunt, just as some letterboxers don't want to deal with gps receivers, and some confluence hunters don't want to deal with what they consider "litter".
(True that there are common issues that it makes sense for everyone to look at together (liability and permission come to mind), but experience has it that few of the participants are particularily interested in these issues, and these sorts of common issues merit their own charter, and this is not the charter indicated for the group under discussion (AFAIK)).
In other words, some in each group would prolly consider alot of stuff from the other groups off-topic (if it were posted to their fora today, or unless such a group specifically had this broad a charter). You need to come up with a hobby that is attractive simultaneously to everyone before coming up with a name that is attractive simultaneously to everyone.