Sending Out An SOS

SOSman said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on

the

Quoted message said:

trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

DUH!!!

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going to
place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

I'll stick with asking a trusted friend to perform this function.

(Earl)

"SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

Mike Romain said:

Ya, that sounds just like a new twist on the old 'ticket' scam. They
mailed hard to find sports tickets out to folks and cleaned out their

So do the experiment. Sign up, notify them of your Everest expedition,
and hang out in the basement with your 12 gauge.

HTH,
Shawn

On 1 May 2005 19:11:06 -0700, "SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in
message <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://spammingbastard.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones

Something which hill walkers and cyclists have been managing to do
since time immemorial without the need to pay spammers.

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

SOSman said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on

the

Quoted message said:

trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

What if I just send my travel plan to my loved ones before I go?
Wouldn't that be simpler?

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.
-S-

What................

ya can't drag yerself out??

Wussy............

"SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

In article <[email hidden]>, Stuart Hofmann says...

Quoted message said:

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.
-S-

-------------------------------------------
Satellite phone for Rent....

http://www.travelbygps.com/articles/satphones.php

JD

On Mon, 02 May 2005 12:11:41 GMT, Chris Phillipo
<[email hidden]> wrote:

(snipped)

Quoted message said:

a little Beagle with
one of those retractable leashes attached, barking his head off in the
middle of the woods a good 2 miles from anywhere. We never found who it
was formerly attached to but I told the police if anyone is reported
missing in that area, that's where they are.

What did you do about the beagle? I'd hope you took it home or to a
shelter. I'm a dog lover, in case it's not obvious.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: [email hidden] (strip the .invalid to email)

Earl Jacksboro said:

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going

to

Quoted message said:

place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

I'll stick with asking a trusted friend to perform this function.

I was thinking the same thing. It's also the reason I don't leavew
wilderness permits in any unlocked receptacle. I've opened them up and
found literally dozens of nice juicy bits of peoples lives, their addresses,
and their full itineries; it's a veritable goldmine for thievery.

Jon

"Stuart Hofmann"

Quoted message said:

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

Jon Danniken said:

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

If you don't mind paying the bill.
-S-

In article <[email hidden]>,

Jon Danniken said:

"Stuart Hofmann"

Quoted message said:

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

No, it is only "Ok:" for you to press the "Panic Button" with
your "LAST Dying Breath", and then you better be dead when they
find you. Otherwise your just another Trail Woosie.....

Me

Earl Jacksboro said:

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going to
place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

Yeah, makes a lot more sense to inform a close, trusted friend of your
travel plans. Besides, the way some people check their email it could be
days before it's received, if it doesn't get recycled by the spam
filters. Also, think about all the travelers who forget to turn the
alarm off when they return home, resulting in false alarms going out. A
problematic 'solution' all 'round.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Spehro Pefhany said:

On Tue, 03 May 2005 22:51:10 GMT, the renowned Me <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Jon Danniken said:

"Stuart Hofmann"
> PeterL wrote:
>
> > SOSman wrote:
> > Hopefully they will come...
>
> In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button
> that
> summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
> solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

No, it is only "Ok:" for you to press the "Panic Button" with
your "LAST Dying Breath", and then you better be dead when they
find you. Otherwise your just another Trail Woosie.....

Me

Our survival instructor always drilled into us that it was better to
be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

If you had to take a course to learn how to survive, then you,
by definition, are a "Trail Woosie". Most folks have an embred
Survival Instinct, and don't need to be instructed on how.

Me

Shaun Haines said:

Where exactly "far out in the Alaskan bush" do you live? I'd be curious to
know. By the way, I'm not a city boy, and I think what you meant to say is
that we don't have "cojones."

"Kohhooonies" is the original Inuit.............maybe.

Shaun Haines said:

"Kohhooonies" is the original Inuit.............maybe.

I checked dictionary.com and no reference to it.

I searched google and the term seem to mean "courage to do a high risk
item" or a synonym for testicles.

As far as a location, synonym for boondocks form http://dictionary.com
1. Wild and dense brush; jungle.
2. Rural country; the backwoods.

email hidden said:

Shaun Haines said:

"Kohhooonies" is the original Inuit.............maybe.

I checked dictionary.com and no reference to it.

I searched google and the term seem to mean "courage to do a high risk
item" or a synonym for testicles.

As far as a location, synonym for boondocks form http://dictionary.com
1. Wild and dense brush; jungle.
2. Rural country; the backwoods.

It might be a reference to "cojones", a Spanish word meaning
testicles, common usage is more the sense of "brass balls" or
gutsy/courage/audacity.

Unlikely such a similar word with the same meaning would have evolved
in such a different language.

Try again with the correct spelling and you might get a better result.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
--
At the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom

You try to come off as really tough, big deal. I grew up in the wilderness
of Maine, I used to go out on my own all the time, never telling anyone
where I was going. Fear of your own inadequacies is the only thing you need
to truly concern yourself about. I have had to deal with black bears, bob
cats and other creatures of the wild. So cut the [censored] and calling people
wussies, and other derogatory terms to try and goad others on. I would
gladly pit my wilderness survival skills against your so called abilities.
You get no radio, gun, shelter, or any of the other amenities you are used
to. Oh, you also go without any food. I am sure that you were on the radio
when your bush plane crashed and gave a distress call with basic coordinates
for rescuers to find you. I will allow you a knife or leatherman.

On the other hand could you survive in NYC. Doubt it.

So hit the road and get a life.

"Me" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Jon Danniken said:

"Stuart Hofmann"

Quoted message said:

PeterL wrote:

> SOSman wrote:
> Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button
that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

No, it is only "Ok:" for you to press the "Panic Button" with
your "LAST Dying Breath", and then you better be dead when they
find you. Otherwise your just another Trail Woosie.....

Me