Tharagleb

The only thing I had worth $100 on me was my snowshoes, my GPS and my car keys. I needed all of these to get home... I really *did* feel kinda lame putting a Tharagleb coin in after taking the money out...

Thanks Jamie! And Keystone Approver, I understand and agree with your point. I was just trying to drag the discussion off the cache page. I will close this thread if it takes a wrong turn. (BTW, I have solved the cache in question. My question about Varsgeld's message has nothing to do with solving the cache.)

Okay, but people were speculating on the cache page itself. I thought this would be better... and I used the word "speculate" not "collaborate".

I guess I will start: Has anybody solved Vargseld!'s message?? I don't think it is a straight substitution or a Vigenere. I emailed him for a hint, but no answer..

Please feel free to speculate about the solution to Rupert's Cash Cache here. It is probably better to discuss things here than on the cache page itself. I may or may not answer questions. It is NFA's cache, so I will not being doing any spoilers. [Edit: Topic should be NFA-53 but you get my drift..., sorry Jamie!]

Too late. People are even posting about the methods that they're using to solve the puzzle, which is unethical, in my opinion. I would agree, except those methods aren't working, so what's the harm.

I started a new thread once, I was suggesting that when you send someone an email from GC.com that the "Subject" could be modified. This was so that people who had Gmail accounts didn't have them all glommed together. I was flamed pretty bad I just started a thread to congratulate Flask on 800 finds...

I have one cache, Candelabra Entry, it's a puzzle. There are a lot of puzzle caches aound Vermont. Some of them are really amazing. I have had fun doing them. I intend to put out more caches, they probably will all be puzzles...

Here is my favorite: The site is "unusual", the cache is not a "visual" cache, nor is it a "virtual" cache, it is a micro that can be either very hard, or easy to find. The poster of the above "find" did not sign the log...

Doesn't have to be Michigan. Little help... [and bump]

I don't think it is a hoax.

Need help from a cacher near W84 27.24 to help me do "Where's in a name cache." Will mail you a Tharagleb coin (my sig item) for your troubles. Thanks in advance, Tharagleb

Assuming for the moment that this cache, or an equally strange cache, exists. I would beg TPTB to create a "I will not look for this." or "Ignore" log note or some such that indicates you do not want this cache on PQ's. As this hobby/game grows, more and more of these types of caches are likely appear, taking up more and more of your precious 500 cache-limit on your PQ's. In short, it will be the end of caching as we know it today Even though I am joking here a little bit, and I don't really have any caches in my area I want to ignore, yet, I still would like an "Ignore this cache" log entry. That being said, I will defend to my death the cache owner's right to create such a stu..., , uh..., original cache.

This is all well and good, setting up a new account and logging the old finds. But what about the TB's. I don't generally keep the TB numbers, maybe you all do. I can imagine that trying to re-log a locationless may be problematic in that most of them limit only one "find" per a particular location/instance. This sounds like we need a mod to the web site, some kind of "account split" function that would take an account and rip in two and create two new accounts that have the exact same stats as the old one. Or not...

Leprechauns,

Jeremy, They (gmail) know about it, doesn't look like they intend to fix it anytime soon. It's really annoying because EVERY email that is started by emailing a user here at GC gets stuck in the same thread. So soon you have threads that have dozens (or more) of messages, most of them unrelated to each other. It was just a thought, and I wanted to see how many other people were concerned about this etc. Thanks, Alan [Editted to fix typo]

Prime Suspect: The whole idea is to break the thread. It would actually only be broken when you use GC.com to generate the first email in the tread. The replies, even on a later date, would stay in the same thread.

I tested it (gmail) and it seems to work. So long as the subject line is different it goes to another thread. Other changes could be to allow user to specify a word or phrase Tharagleb contacting you from Geocaching.com about: GC0001 Tharagleb contacting you from Geocaching.com RE: Candelabra Entry Cache -Thargleb

Suggestion: Subject line to read: Tharagleb contacting you from Geocaching.com - 11/30/2004 Okay, I may take some flak for suggesting this because the real problem is with the way Gmail threads its discussions. But if you could add the date to the Subject line when someone emails another member I believe Gmail will thread conversations a little better. Right now every thread I start here at GC.com gets put into the same thread (because the subject is always the same.) Dunno if anyone else thinks this might be good idea.. -Tharagleb

I post DNF's if I search for the cache and don't find it. However, if I am not done searching and I leave just because I have run out of time, I usually post a note. The distinction is whether or not I believe the cache is there and I just didn't find it or if I looked everywhere possible, and long enough, and still couldn't find it. I don't want to post DNF's where there is a good chance the cache is there, because this will deter other people from searching for the cache. Put it this way, if the last three people post DNF's for a cache, are you likely to pass it up? I am better about posting finds than DNF's, however.

I have only logged one find where I did not sign the log book. I found the cache and it was full of water, the log book was there but unusable. In the future I will only log finds where I sign the log book, virtuals/locationless excluded.