slippery slope/ caching in the news

[texcaver]

Was looking through the "Texas caching in the news,"
from the Texas Geocaching Association, and noticed this: amarillonet.com/stories/082403/new_treasuretourism.shtml
in particular: "Gina Gillespie, Spearman Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, calls it "high-tech treasure hunting" and she plans to couple it with historical education.

She's going to have eight different sites on her cache page. Each one will have historical significance.

Each cache will have trinkets, post cards, even some discount coupons that promote area businesses.

"What we're going to do is find coordinates to where (Charles) Lindberg landed and our windmills are located," Gillespie said. "We'll do it to promote tourism."

She said the game is fun for people who want something to do along the way as they travel. And tourism marketers can keep track of how many extra visitors they get to an area.

The underlines are mine (if they work).
Now I dont have a major problem with this, but with the wrong people, this could get way out of hand.
At least on Geocaching.com, she is using her name rather than a nick-
and they might be cool caches
for example :Get Outa Dodgewww.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=063fbf30-c016-484a-be7d-fd17f1bab9ad

[charizard]

Hummmmm, very interesting ;D ...oh and, I know I'd love to see my "hint" published .. wonder how long that cache lasted?

[KM5BS]

Considering how restrictive Geocaching.com has become on cache placement, I wonder if they will approve any of these if they know they are being used to promote local businesses and such?

Time will tell.........

BTW, we just published all the encrypted hints from Char's caches in the area newspapers...........

[charizard]

..... ;D ahhhhh come on now, you don't need no stinky hints on mine anyway - right? (I'd still hate it, that one was so detailed that you could walk to it without the coords!)