I understand not wanting to log on the web, I know one or two who do it.

I can't understand it, mostly because I think this is a none issue. It would be nice to be able to explain to a potential cacher 'and of course you can make your remarks private if you so wish', rather than having them put off the whole thing by what they see (rightly or wrongly) as a tedious and/or worrying obligation. I can understand that there are people who will print cache pages and go and find caches, but don't like to feel obliged to offer their notes to the public. So anything we can do to encourage on-line logging would help. Most of my caches have logs from this type of cacher, and it would have been a benefit to have been informed without having to visit the cache itself. Whilst this might annoy certain people (those that feel the need to control how their cache is logged) and whilst it's useful to read of other peoples' experiences before you look for a cache, I think that it would encourage a proportion of secretive cache loggers to use the website as their diary. Everyone else would simply see that it had been found (or not found) by the cacher: so the log would look the same as any other but there would be no text. This would disallow access to the log entirely: exceptions being the person who submitted it, and moderators (in case bad behaviour is evident). Add to this the feeling that some cache owners are sensitive, or critical of certain types of log style (TNLNTFTC, for instance) and trigger-happy with the delete button, and I think we have a good case for allowing cachers to mark their log as Private. I suspect that they are shy about what they write and/or can't be bothered to say a lot (or anything) in a public log. Unfortunately, they may still pick up geocoins and travel bugs! Instead, they keep a personal diary of caches found. A UK topic under discussion in this thread is about the significant number of cachers who sign the logbook but rarely (or never) log on the web page.

Lowest level private cache