I think it is a great idea.
These special accounts could be set up to be administered by various users (2 or 3). GC administrators would then just need to associate the active cachers with the account as requested by the users in the area (maybe have some kind of online poll / voting system. Each assigned user would then use their own login credentials to access the account. This would give traceability as to who carried out the various actions. The great thing with this is that the email notifications would be sent to the users' normal email account. The only complication with this approach is that GC would have to build the functionality into the sites backend (probably not a trivial thing).
If this is not palatable to GC administrators / programmers to develop / implement the functionality on the site, then an alternative workaround would be to set up a new user account. Have the caches adopted by this account. Cachers in the area then just pass on the current logon details to the new "administrator". New administrator would then change the password / etc to take "ownership of the account. This handover would then be repeated at each handover. One issue to be considered is possibly the need to pass an email account on in a similar manner or the new "owner" would also need to change the email address at handover.
Keen to hear what you think about these proposals.
