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I'm also not getting my PQ's e-mailed to me. They are running, they're just not getting e-mailed to me. EDIT: Something changed, gmail now thinks everything from geocaching.com is spam. If you use gmail, check your spam folder.

I haven't received a single notification since Jan 26. There have been finds on my caches since then. Any word from GS on what's going on?

I can't seem to find the ignore feature on this forum, anybody know how to get to it? I have used it on most other forums.

patience grasshopper. Round here anywhere from 10 minutes to two days.

My Monday PQ has not shown up yet either. Usually in my inbox when I get up.

Good tutorial for Magellan units. On Delorme units and I believe on Garmin (someone feel free to correct m ehere) you have to tell the unit to average.

Umm, 8 feet is well within the accuracy of your iPhone, I wouldn't even consider 32 feet to be very far out, depending on the geography of the area.

I believe that since you are now a member of Geocaching.com you can go the cache listing and add a "should be archived" log. This will bring it to the attention of the local reviewer and cache owner. Once it is archived, the searchers should dwindle down and then stop.

Ummm area of a circle is PiR^2 So actually, 528x528x3.14159= 875,825 sq. ft.

I am planning a multi cache and the first waypoint will be a micro with coordinates in it for the final location, which will be a medium lock and lock. How do I list the cache size? Micro, small or other? I didn't find anything in the guidelines that addressed this? How would you do it? Thanks

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You might want to make sure it isn'r\t a cache that is listed on a different listing service. How are sure it is abandoned?

Exactly.

I am and I agree. The design seems to have accomplished it's primary goal of preserving life and containing the fire. I assume that the problem was with a transformer. They unfortunately will every so often just fail, sometimes fantastically.

I wasn't piling on. That wasn't my intention. Sorry if I offended. I agree with you that GC.com did everything within their power and resources to get back online. They are obviously a small operation and I think their level of backup seems appropriate. Verizon absolutely needed to have a backup and evidently they did. GC being down is an annoyance, my Verizon DSL service being down is a major disruption, especially for my wife!

Verizon did have some sort of contigency because my DSL was back up by about 10 AM on Friday.

Fire was in a vault where Seattle City Light connected to transformers for the building. Unclear from the news reports who owned the transformers, but Seattle City Light stated the fire was started by "customer" equipment. The sprinklers came on, and there was no loss of life. That's what sprinkler systems are primarily designed for, life safety. Insurance companies will often ask for other fire detection and protection in addition to building code, fire marshall and NFPA recommendations, in an effort to minimize financial loss. Sound to me like the systems worked properly. For commercial reasons, the companies involved could look into preventing the water intrusion into the back up generators, I suspect the water flowed through the conduits form the vault to wherever the generators are. I had no internet access on Friday, as the fire knocked my Verizon DSL off as well.

"Active, but no logs on the site?" That's a weird one. They have logs for a few travelers, but no geocache logs.

I'm a newb with 25 finds. I dropped a GC which an experienced cacher (+2000 finds) picked up and didn't log. It showed up a week or so later in another cache. It's not just the newbs that forget to log!

I found a TB in a cache today. It is listed as being with another cacher, I believe they must have dropped it w/o logging it. Should I grab it, dip it in the cache where I found it to log the mileage, or do I contact the cacher to remind them to log it into the cache. The cacher appears to be active, but has no logs on the site?!?

Try asking on the Delorme Forum. You will get more responses there.

The PN-20 also works well for geocaching and is available for ~$155 on Amazon.

Eagle Scout - Troop 510, St. Clair District, Okaw Valley Council - 1980. OA - Brotherhood. Attended 1977 National Jamboree.

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