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I think the processing etc required for working out who you may know must be immense, but it could possibly be that you live in the same area, perhaps have a couple of mutual friends and have geocaching as one of your hobbies? It's quite often I see friends suggested who I've never met but may have 2 mutual friends, I think sometimes it's scraping the barrel a little for possible matches :S

****Solution Found**** Ok I got a message from someone on the forums to suggest checking the blocked senders list and low and behold there was the geocaching address added! There is no way I added it so I really don't know why it was put there!? Anyway, i removed it and added it to the safe senders list just to make sure and now am getting the emails through Mods, Could this be added as a sticky or a message put somewhere about it?! It seems to be a common problem and something that I wouldn't have otherwise checked because I know I didn't add it to the list! Cheers all!

I imagine that it probably is Hotmail blocking it. Geocaching can be quite email intensive - with pocket queries, alerts, owner reports, watch lists, book marks etc. Personally I like being informed and am definately not complaining about the amount of emails i receive, but Hotmail may see all these emails as possible spam (by some automated service) and now the domains flagged as spam - reading a few forums it seems that geocaching need to get in touch with hotmail and they'll lift the ban, there's also a few threads that mention geocaching can't get through because of the ban? Any lackeys got any insight here?

I could but at the moment Gmail doesn't offer push and hotmail does. Keep pulling email every 15 mins or whatever was draining the battery loads. Has there been any solution to getting hotmail to behave?

I've got a problem with my hotmail account receiving geocaching emails. Until recently I've had the emails from geocaching forwarded to me and my brother (we cache together). Looking for a way of getting push email for free through exchange I came across using windows live(hotmail) to push the email on pocket pc, which is what my phone runs. This is all well and good apart from it doesn't receive any emails from Geocaching. All the emails go to one account (cache AT gsellis DOT com) which is then forwarded to mine and my brother's gmail accounts. I set gmail to forward all mail to my hotmail account, which i receive with the exception of anything from geocaching.com. I wondered if this was something gmail was setting as the emails aren't technically sent to my gmail but rather show up as sent to the previously mentioned address. I then added an extra rule for the cache address to send to my hotmail account as well. The emails are still not received. I am assuming this must be a problem at hotmail's end that they're dropping the emails completely, so I wanted to check if anyone else has this problem with hotmail (whether or not you're routing your emails half way around the world like me )

That address is from running on the local visual studio webserver. They've obviously messed up somewhere and put the wrong address in.....not a clue how they would do that though ?!

anyone had a reply from techsupp.europe@garmin.com? I sent an email a while ago and no reply yet

Answered in post #21 and #28. Fair enough I didn't understand that to be referring to the accuracy of the coordinates

Is this going to give the exact coordinates or still have the inherent randomisation? Just wondered since it seems like you're going to have more control over who's accessing it(tying it to PM / Non PM) Would an option be for PM that they get the proper coords? It's surely less processing for you to not have to add/subtract a certain percentage from the coords

Mine hasn't expired yet, but you do have to use it at least once in every six months. The other good thing is that they [T-Mobile] don't have a hard-limit like most of the other vendors, so once in a while you can exceed the quota without penalty. I am supposedly in an area with no 3G coverage, but it works fine, and it is 3G too Oh, and it works on my Acer Aspire One netbook too (Windows XP) I dodn't think of it that way...we'll see. Do you use your Acer with GSAK by any chance and does it handle it OK? I've been thinking of getting a netbook as my mobile can't hold a decent sized database and laptops too big to always put in the car....

If you're wanting it for a short amount of time, there's a good offer i'm going to take up in a few weeks. For those of you who haven't heard of it, there's a website called quidco (www.quidco.com) where you can get cash back on purchases made online. Recently one popped up for o2 - buy a 3g wireless usb thingy (£30) and put £15 on which gets you a month of usage (either 3 or 15 gig if i remember) and you get £45 cashback, making it free! The only "catch" is you have to put the £15 on within 30 days of buying the thing, so I'm gonna buy one soon and then put the £15 on after I get back from Italy Also, quidco take the first £5 you earn, so if you don't use it already you'll get £40 back - still I always check on qudico before I make an online purchase and have made 40 or 50 quid this year so far Going back to the original question though, the OP mentions they don't have a laptop so a USB modem won't be of any use

When I first found out about Geocaching it was while we were planning a summer camp for our scout group. We were camping at Great Tower and wanted to add Geocaching to a hike, to give them something a little different. Having not had time to test things out before we went, I put the coordinates into TomTom running on my windows mobile phone. We also plotted them on the maps, which the scouts were reading from. We found that the TomTom was OK for getting you to the general area (although it did keep jumping back onto the road and then you had to mess around with it to start behaving). In the end we found 2 out of 4 caches on the route - Berties Purple Passion and A Fordable Fun. The two unfound were Beech Hill Wood PC BEECH HILL. I put this down to them being in trees and a significant distance from a road. I've been back since and found them both with normal GPS (Garmin ETREX VENTURE HC) with absolutely no problem. I would say that TomTom etc are OK for starting with but once you go for a dedicated unit you'll realise how much easier it is

No. If you don't like this conversation then don't read this thread. I'm quite happy not to read this thread, but when I go on every forum and there's another thread about the same topic along with either a member of Groundspeak saying no or someone pasting messages in from Groundspeak saying no it gets tiresome

This is getting boring. I'm all for people making a point that they used the feature but it seems that GS aren't bringing it back, so can we not just move on?

I don't think I ever had the pleasure of visiting geocacheuk.com, but I do have some experience with PHP/MySQL....what needs doing?/

I think what the OP means is that the "changed" flag shouldn't be triggered by someone finding the cache, but rather just if the description (useful for puzzle caches), coords, or status (archived, enabled, disabled etc) changes. That way if you're maintaining an offline DB you're only downloading useful data. Personally I think it's a great idea, will see what GS think

It could be a kapersky problem. I got crashes at first with IE at work (before I installed Chrome ) it seemed more to be the Java VM causing trouble (goto java.sun.com and get the latest version). But as other posters have mentioned Firefox or Chrome are the way forward

Tried this and it doesn't seem to work. I experienced the same results as others. You can see the PQ in the "edit" page but it doesn't appear in the PQ grid. Me too:( It'd be very useful if this "function" worked

Cemetery caches are not a cache type. The other two you mention are. I thought Spirit Quest caches was a type, such as WSQ for Wisconsin and I believe Indiana has ISQ. How many other states have them I'm not sure, but I would call that a type. In fact I did a keyword search for spirit quest and came up with 1122 hits, but I can't limit it to one state. If tptb would just set the normal search so a person could somehow do a keyword search and add a limit that would work also. I think from this thread we can conclude that a more precise search method would be nice. Where the user can specify different parameters (similar to that for pocket queries). I don't know if TPTB have left the search this way to encourage users wanting more precise search capabilities to upgrade or if it's an area that they are considering for future improvement?

But if I were able to choose the time when this PQ should run, I would have been very happy. Of course the time should be related to my local time, so it was easy, but that should not be a problem. After setting a time for the PQ to run, I would have the PQ within one hour after the start time of the PQ. I guess this could balance out the PQ generation troughout the 24 hours, since people are active at different times around the world. At the moment I never know when, or wheter, my PQs are coming. I don't think that would be possible, as if everyone wanted their PQs at the same time it would cause problems with stress on the server and would ultimately end up in people being annoyed/creating repeating threads on the forum on the same topic complaining about the poor service they think they are receiving etc. I think, personally, if I have a PQ that runs once a week or whatever then I can live with it arriving when it does (normally 830-930 ish GMT). If I'm setting one up to run straight away sometimes I get it straight away, other times I wait a few hours. If I'm going out immediately and need the info immediately then tough luck, I should have been better prepared!

Really? Before I became a premium member it worked for me - I got all the waypoints for that cache but no description etc, there was a message instead of the description saying for this info upgrade to premium

Grrr forum crashed - double post

I never had any trouble with the III at all - it just worked, which was great. I tried a bit of experimentation last night, though, and I seem to have cracked my problem with the IV. I made the waypoint file for Memory Map smaller by deleting the child waypoints, and it worked without any trouble. I'll try sneaking the bigger version in as soon as I can, to see if I can get it to work - perhaps I've sorted whatever was causing the problem. Beeline seems to like the GPS now as well, as it worked fine when I tested it this morning. First impressions of the phone (now I've got stuff working) are mixed. The form factor of the Vario III, with the tilting screen, is WAY better, but the IV's keyboard is lovely and the display is awesomely better. It's the same physical size, but has four times the resolution (640x480 instead of 320x240) and the difference this makes is amazing. Memory Map looks incredible on it, especially with Lordelph's Lovely Icons. It's also way better in bright sun than the III. TouchFlo 3D is annoying in the extreme, though, and I turned it off the second I worked out how. The settings straight out of the box seem designed to drive you to madness, and it took a lot of tweaking to get it working the way I had my III set up. Lee Ace, I've not got an upgrade until December but at the moment i'm going more towards android. It's tricky, I do like the Vario III but windows mobile is doing my head in. I started off with the vario I and to be honest, despite them banging on that the III is faster etc, there's little difference. Is the IV a lot faster or does it get quite sluggish still? Hmm, I'm not sure. I've got the vario III and if I try and add any amount of waypoints (I'm not sure if it's sending some or all the waypoints i've got) but I get the out of memory error. Perhaps a fresh install may do it? Also, have you tried Geocaching Live? live.geocaching.com

That's not a current limit. I think what sTeamTraen was meaning is that you could run 5 x 500 cache PQ's one day and then the next run the remaining 225 cache PQ. Obviously it would be a lot better if you could get a 2500 cache PQ even if it's just for an extra 30 seconds downloading 5 attachments from separate emails instead of 1 attachment, every little helps

Hmm, I'm not sure. I've got the vario III and if I try and add any amount of waypoints (I'm not sure if it's sending some or all the waypoints i've got) but I get the out of memory error. Perhaps a fresh install may do it?