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Typographical Errors LbNA #23181

Owner:DrewFamily Supporter Verified
Plant date:Sep 14, 2002
Location:
City:???
County:New London
State:Connecticut
Boxes:0
Found by: ???
Last found:Nov 22, 2020
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFOFF
Last edited:Oct 16, 2016
Injoy!

This letterbox clue was originally posted on "The Big List," back in the day when the letterbox-usa yahoogroup was extensively used by sneaky boxers to hide mystery clues. Just in case the link above doesn't work for you, here is the text of the clue:

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--in letterbox-usa@y... ArieLa@a... wrote:

>Date: 5 Sep 2002, 2:17pm
>Frxm: ArieLa@a...
>To: letterbox-usa@y...
>
>Subj: Typographical Errors
>
>I've been noticing an increase in typos on the clues I've been

downloading on the website, and hate to sound like a schoolmarm or to
be critical in any way, but wish that maybe the webmasters could take
a moment to run them through a spellchecker before posting?

>
>Thanks,
>Boxinva

Hi, Boxinva!
Th; usualt reason we don't automatically fix an authors typos is that
we firmly believe letterboxers own the copyright to their clues. If
we were to start spott spell checking for errors we could
inadvertently do damag|e too thc clues. (What if someone put typos in
on purpose?). Another reason on the topp ov the list why thx
webmasters don't edit clues is the bbig scrambl it would take to
loock fo errors. We'd have to get thi whitte out markr going, and I
for one am not to be trusted with office supplies because I make a
big mess. Still, I know what you mean! This is also the reason we try
not to mark boxes as "missing" unless the planter authorizes it. You
wouldn't believe how often a box is mistakenly reported "missing"
when it was actually just "not found." If you have any questions
about this whole thing, please don't hesitate to ask.

Jay, webmaster for CX RI MA CA AZ NM NV & CO

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