Kent_Allard

I don't see any harm in either one. It's been sitting there for a couple of weeks, and most owners appreciate it if thier trackable items move from time to time, especially if you are keeping it on mission. Further, I've always thought that dipping came about because someone took a bug somewhere and it wouldnt fit. It might help the bug towards it's mission, and if you pul it right back out, it shouldnt raise any false hopes of getting it, unless someone pulls a pq at the magic moment the bug is in there.

Have you tried a pocket query? You can select just the type of cache you are looking for, and that is active, and set it to 500, in the specific country. If they are as rare as you say, that should cover a country (thought someone said there are only 300 webcam caches left in USA).

To answer the concern of why I bookmark a cache after I post my archive request or note, it is so I get an emial of logs made to it after that. This is how I was notified so quickly when GoBolts! posted the note asking for help with his cache. Why make that bookmark list public? trasnparency... believe it or not. So the methodology... Run a PQ for the 500 disabled caches closest to seaworld zip code. Sort them in GSAK by last log date. This will sort so I can see the ones that havent been paid attention to in a long time. If so much as a note is posted from time to time, it should never make it up to the interesting time frame for me. If the last post was in 2007, I post a request for archive. Like our Armenian friend said, this is a forgiving process, and just cause I request archive doesnt mean squat, except that it puts it on the reviewers radar too. That in it's self is no biggie if the owner just posts a note to update what's going on, the reviewer will see that, and then it's all good. If on the other hand the owner proves to be MIA for some period of time that the reviewer determines, then a reviewer makes a decision. If the last post was in 2008, then I post a note asking what's up, and again, it goes on a bookmark list that again is kept public. The interesting point here for all of you is that if I keep the methodology clean, then my caches would be marked in those situations as well. Why would anyone suggest I wouldnt post a request on my own cache and then fix it per the plan. First rule of a secret identity, dont rat yourself out! remember the scence in Batman Begins where Bruce Wayne is saying that Batman is clearly deluded? So who would suspect him? Another interesting tie in there, which really has nothing to do with geocaching, but in 1929 The Shadow broke up a group of armed thugs, and saved the life of Thomas Wayne, and his young son Bruce. I keep watching closely to see if they will ever seize on the opportunity to show Bruce Wayne wearing a Girisol ring. But back to my point... the only suspect you have definitively ruled out is yourself. I could still be any of the rest of you, or none.... but does it matter who I am? That so many of you immidiately asked who I was shows clear need for this second account. You yourselves admitted in this thread that my biggest 'crime' is being blunt and frank, that beyond that I have dont nothing more than prompt you on many counts of procrastination. Interesting stat to go along with that. I posted 80 requests for archive that night, and while I got a lot of grief for the fire areas, I assure you, the majority were not in burn areas at all. Of those 80, a full 30 had been addressed by the owners within 24 hours. when I posted the simple note to ask what was going on with those not posted on since january, about 40 of them, a few days later I have still only seen the owners respond on 4 of them. To me this seems statistically significant. Even in the face of that interesting tidbit, I plan to continue with the simple note plan, based in no small part of my conversations with one of the people in this forum. Thanks Brother. On the flip side, if the owners of those caches dont answer the posted question asking what is going on with the cache, it stands to reason that a request for archive eventually be issued. though it is way to short to make a long story short, the reason I am posting here today is to ask this forum what the reasonable time period for that might be? For those who still have angst in my direction, feel free to fire your salvo, I wont respond to it. I will be reading, but only to look for the answer to that question above. I guess by asking for your input on this, all of you just became my Shadow Council.... Girisol Rings for everyone!