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  1. How do I get rid of "Will Attend" logs on the My Account page, short of deleting the entries on the cache pages? Both events are over, and I have posted "Attended" logs for both, but both are still showing up on my page. I looked through the forums for a while and searched too - I know there were some issues with this feature, but couldn't find this specific topic... help!

     

    Yikes!! :laughing:

     

    I never realised that ANY logs would automatically get deleted. I have certainly never received a notification of any of my "Will Attend" logs having been deleted. That is a real pain and I fail to see the logic behind it. Interesting information might have been included in some of those logs. Often part of the fun of an Event cache is the lead up, including the joking around that goes on in the cache's official record. I don't see why TPTB should EVER delete a log unless it violates some terms of service or for similar reasons - it sure can't be to save disk space since the space taken up in the database by "Will Attend" logs must be miniscule in the whole scheme of things. The courtesy of a notification along with a link to the archived log that its originator could access would seem the minimum that should be provided if this is to continue.

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    There are NO caches close to the airport. All Urban Bangkok caches are micros, due to muggle problems, and in view of the horrendous traffic have mainly been placed within easy reach of the BTS stations. (overhead rail system). There are at least a dozen like this.

     

    Most popular cache is the Travel Bug Pit Stop

     

    If you wish I will send a gdb file for Bangkok

     

    Thanks - good to know the public transport system can be useful and get me to useful places. Since it now looks that I will have about 24 hours I can stay overnoght in a hotel and won't have to worry about my luggage/carry on bags etc. So does it makes sense (or is it a really stupid idea) to rent a car and get out more into the countryside?

  3. I am tentatively planning a business trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Toronto at the end of September and am looking at organising my flights so I have long enough layovers on the way to do some geocaching. One such possibility would be at Singapore - a layover of approximately 22 hours.

     

    Can anyone provide advice on how best to get around to cache locations reasonably close to the airport please.

     

    Thanks

  4. I am tentatively planning a business trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Toronto at the end of September and am looking at organising my flights so I have long enough layovers on the way to do some geocaching. One such possibility would be at HKG, Hong Kong

     

    Can anyone provide advice on how best to get around to cache locations reasonably close to the airport please.

     

    Also, what are the possibilities of visiting mainland China for some caching during this layover?

     

    Thanks

  5. I am tentatively planning a business trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Toronto at the end of September and am looking at organising my flights so I have long enough layovers on the way to do some geocaching. One such possibility would be at BKK - Bangkok, Thailand - a layover of approximately 12 hours.

     

    Can anyone provide advice on how best to get around to cache locations reasonably close to the airport please.

     

    Thanks

  6. I am tentatively planning a business trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Toronto at the end of September and am looking at organising my flights so I have long enough layovers on the way to do some geocaching. One such possibility would be at ICN, Seoul, South Korea - a layover of approximately 22 hours.

     

    Can anyone provide advice on how best to get around to cache locations reasonably close to the airport please.

     

    Thanks

  7. Is this going to be a regular feature I wonder?

     

    OK - before I get too upset - are others finding the same problem? I have had no notifications since 430 am Central European time today which I think is 730 pm Friday night in the home of Groundspeak.

     

    Signal isn't signalling to me :ph34r:

  8. This happened the other weekend to me and I started a thread here about it. I then mildly hinted that that perhaps Groundspeak might possibly pay attention to the email thread and got roundly told off by a moderator for suggesting that Groundspeak might actually pay attention to a forum thread after mid afternoon on a Friday and told to send an e-mail to contact@Groundspeak.com - so this time that is what I shall do. Perhaps other folks might do so too so as to get this issue resolved

  9. So you post a thread Friday afternoon, just before quitting time on the West Coast, and expect an answer before the sun comes up on Saturday?

     

    The best way to alert Groundspeak is to email them. Try contact@Groundspeak.com. An important issue like this will likely be looked into much sooner that way than hoping they read this particular thread.

     

    Hmm - 355pm PDT on Friday is a problem for an organisation that supposedly provides a 24 hour service (this is an IT issue after all)? I'm sure the office isn't closed and the doors all locked over the weekend.

     

    A thread entitled "GMail delivery problems" should attract attention I would have thought. In fact it's rather surprising that the IT folks hadn't noticed this issue earlier in the day since by then it had been going on for many hours and since it had occurred on a previous occasion should have been one of the issues that would have been watched for. From many other threads one has little confidence that contact@geocaching.com is an effective means of achieving anything. In fact on http://www.geocaching.com/contact/ it explicitly says "We get thousands of emails each day, and as a small team it is difficult to respond to each and every email in a prompt manner." Not very confidence building... In addition it goes on to say "After checking out the knowledge base and the forums if you do not see the answer to your question, you may email us directly. " clearly indicating that the forums are the first line of contact to use and then, if that doesn't work, giving us permission to send an email.

     

    There was once a support URL http://support.Groundspeak.com/Support/index.php but that seems to have fallen by the wayside as it is no longer accessible. Shame - that was a very good way of submitting problem reports - you got a ticket number etc. Seemed very professional and started to give confidence that it was a maturing organisation.

     

    Oh well - the problem is fixed now however it was caused - hopefully it will not reoccur.

  10. Same troubles as before...although I am getting PQs, no notifications are arriving. I sent GMail a trouble report using the below URL yesterday (you might try cutting and pasting and submitting a report too)

     

    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request...port+your+issue

     

    Received an auto-acknowledgement from them, but no "fix" yet.

     

    Thanks

     

    Here is what I wrote to Google:

     

    In common with hundreds of other geocaching.com and gmail users, regular e-mails originating from geocaching.com do not appear to be arriving. Similar e-mails sent to other email services (yahoo, sympatico.ca, rogers.com etc.) etc. are arriving normally which indicates that the problem lies with gmail and not geocaching.com

     

    A similar situation occurred a few week ago and it was reported that google was throttling or blocking emails from geocaching.com. It appeared to have been resolved until yesterday morning

     

    This is highly inconvenient and totally unnecessary. These emails are not spam but a very necessary part of a worldwide game played by thousands of people.

     

    Please see if you can fix this issue and make sure it doesn't happen again.

     

    Thanks

     

    While this appears to let geocaching.com off the hook I believe they could be helpful in getting this resolved rather than just ignoring this thread.

  11. That's four

     

    I did just get a private e-mail but there must be a holdup with all the other notifications. It does seem to affect only gmail since notifications for the same caches/TBs have reached people who are on different domains.

     

    Time for TPTB to comment perhaps :rolleyes:

  12. I have not received any notifications to my GMail account since 149am EDT today. I know there should have been some since I have posted logs to caches I have a watch on as well as to my own TB and I know that others with non-gmail accounts have received notifications of these. There was a problem with delivery to gmail some time ago so I wonder if it is happening again?

  13. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:11:05 -0800 (PST)

    Return-Path: <noreply@geocaching.com>

    Received: from signal.Groundspeak.com (signal.Groundspeak.com [66.150.167.157])

    by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a8si20247477poa.2007.03.06.10.11.05;

    Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:11:05 -0800 (PST)

    Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of noreply@geocaching.com designates 66.150.167.157 as permitted sender)

    Received: from hal.Groundspeak.com (hal.Groundspeak.com [66.150.167.136])

    by signal.Groundspeak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A49246FE

    for <xxxxxx@gmail.com>; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:17:36 -0800 (PST)

    Received: from mail pickup service by hal.Groundspeak.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;

    Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:17:36 -0800

     

    The above extract from the headers of a recent "instant" notification seems to indicate a delay of almost 21 hours in the e-mail moving from signal.Groundspeak.com to mx.google.com (i.e. gmail)

  14. For those of you who are wondering about what has started to become a regular Geofellas activity - yes we ARE planning April Fools fun this year.

     

    With April Fools day being a Sunday this year we are going to change the format a bit. We are still working on the details but so you can put it in your calendar here are some basics.

     

    The Event will be a Sunday lunch/afternoon "pub" gathering. The location is still to be decided as the pub from the last two years has now closed and we are working to locate a suitable alternative in the Stouffville area.

     

    We plan to have a real cache as well that will kick off early on the Sunday morning - but we won't be doing the midnight thing this year - we want to make it more family friendly so the "kick-off" for that will be at a "reasonable" hour.

  15. At around 215am EST there were about 100 go to (in the GCZZWs at any rate) and new numbers were being isssued at the rate of about one every 3 to 4 minutes. So I dozed off and when I awoke at 330am EST it had reached GC10006. A very rapid rate increase in that 75 minute period. :o So it looks like GCZZZZ probably happened after midnight, even on the left coast.

  16. Not at home but I sometimes do when travelling. I recall Brussels and Boston where I used public transport and Berlin where I rented a bike. For Tokyo I had taken a folding bike with me on the plane which worked great as you can take it on the subway and the sidewalks have bike lanes painted on them too.

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