welch
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https://www.geocaching.com/account/settings/emailpreferences
Click "Send me a notification every time I receive a message."
Then the message then comes as email and if you hit reply your answer will be forwarded to an address like xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx@mc.geocaching.com (for every cacher that contacted you a different one) and goes transformed as message to the other persons message center.
If everything works there is no need to use the message center plus you can keep the emails for later reference.
Yes I get emails telling me I have a message...
However when i hit the reply to message it trys to send the email to noreply@geocaching.com. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere for my replies to get transformed?
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Welch can I ask why you don't like the message centre?
I don't like it because for me it tends to slow down communications. Since it causes a need to log into geocaching.com message center, a site I may have not otherwise needed to visit today. If a message is an email then reply can be done simply with a reply.
Why haven't you enabled your email address in your profile? "Show my email address on my public profile"? The PM system adds a layer of communication difficulty, especially when replying, where the respondent's email address is the "No-Reply" throw-away one, and PM is what people may to use in order to "email" when the address has not been enabled.
Not even sure how to do that. Guess I spend too little of my time on geocaching.com to have figured out all the options.
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I do not like the message center, and do not use it. Really wish GS would allow it to be something that could be disabled. But it is not so, onto my question:
What are others are doing to try and get people to use email? I have stated my preference very clearly in my profile, but still often receive emails telling me I have a new message (which I do not answer).
thanks for any help.
You don't reply to people who try to contact you?! Why not reply (via PM), "Please email, NOT message center me", and include an email address that you will use?
I reply to the those that need responses via email. Going to their profile and sending out an email via geocaching.com if must be.
Logging in to use the message center to tell people to email me, means having to log in. Seems like a waste of time to do that.
Kunarion, I'm gonna guess you are online frequently, and on the geocaching website a lot, right?
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Welch can I ask why you don't like the message centre?
I don't like it because for me it tends to slow down communications. Since it causes a need to log into geocaching.com message center, a site I may have not otherwise needed to visit today. If a message is an email then reply can be done simply with a reply.
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I do not like the message center, and do not use it. Really wish GS would allow it to be something that could be disabled. But it is not so, onto my question:
What are others are doing to try and get people to use email? I have stated my preference very clearly in my profile, but still often receive emails telling me I have a new message (which I do not answer).
thanks for any help.
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Do I just log a find knowing I saw it in the private property owner's hand as he berated me to complete my Geo Art?
""" about he next log as a Found it knowing full well there was no cache to log? I suspect it was someone just completing the
GeoArt/power trail and logging with a drive-by...Unless someone took it upon themselves to replace, yet again, the missing cache
that the property owner picked up.
No, you did the right thing in not 'finding' a cache you did not actually sign the log of.
I thought at first maybe the other person was just copy and pasting the same log and not actually reading the cache page. Many of the log are the same, or start out the same. However, on GC2ND3T and some others there is a different c&p log that says they replaced a cache they knew was missing?
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Picked up the container last Friday from bickalkoi.
Nice to meet people that don't steal any loose container they find in the woods.
As Brian and others thought, container was a missing part of palo marsh cache
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Any chance there will be another run of the earrings? Or are there any hiding around somewhere?
I just got my ears pierced and now I REALLY want a set of these!! The feather design is just incredible.
Not that I am planning.
I will have my fiance CCWashburn look and see what she still has, I am sure it will not be a set but there may be a pair she will part with.
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Hmm,
Okay, I'll play around with that!
I changed batteries and recalibrated, then the compass kept sticking, telling us to head in one direction, even thought the distance kept getting higher and higher in that direction and smaller and smaller in the other direction.
We just had to ignore the arrow and go by the numbers by trial and error. Same thing with the map... destination direction kept jumping all over the place when we were between 0.1miles away and 200 feet away. Made it very difficult to find a very easy cache. Frustrating.
Do you use the unit for autorouting while driving?
Maybe this isn't the problem your having. But I've noticed with my 550, if I don't go to 'where to?' and pick 'recalculate off road' when leaving the car, the compass on the unit will point me to next destintion/turn in the route... which may not be the geocache. Like if I had say parked 200ft from where the unit thought I should park, so the compass will want me to go that 200 ft before swinging around to the actual cache.
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How can one fix this problem?
Not look for caches owned by azzes and gurks, and other people that would delete finds for spite.
That would be easy to do now. What about the waste of time and gas money finding the caches? Is this a live and learn thing? If so, then we can all start doing that to people that we dislike without worrying about getting a time out?
Doing what others do to you might feel good, but would make you exactly like them.
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How can one fix this problem?
Not look for caches owned by azzes and gurks, and other people that would delete finds for spite.
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I find it amusing that everyone looks at the shipping cost instead of the total cost. Is there anyone who sells them for $2.50 and then maybe $3 for shipping? Most sites I've seen want over $10 before s&h. So, go to your local Army/Navy store instead. Wah, wah, wah.
I think most people ARE looking at total cost.
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I think you hit the nail on the head there...the item in question was essentially abandoned. As such, I do not see that a crime was committed.
What of yours may we steal, then? Can I come over tonight and take your lawn sprinkler? Apparently you wouldn't attempt to do anything about it.It certainly cannot be worth all the time and money expended on this waste of time.Or, maybe I'll take your kid's bike. Its used... can't be worth all that much any more. Surely you wouldn't report that to the police... it would just be a waste of time and money.
Apples and oranges. You speak of items actively used and possessed, while this case centers on what's basically abandoned property.
So basically anything that's not in your hands at the moment is abandoned?
I don't know about you, but half the caches I find would look like trash if I didn't know what I was looking at.
Does the guy that was out stealing caches claim he thought they were abandoned?
Yes there are crappy caches out there, but when you make a point of finding and taking them that is stealing.
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I think you hit the nail on the head there...the item in question was essentially abandoned. As such, I do not see that a crime was committed.
What of yours may we steal, then? Can I come over tonight and take your lawn sprinkler? Apparently you wouldn't attempt to do anything about it.It certainly cannot be worth all the time and money expended on this waste of time.Or, maybe I'll take your kid's bike. Its used... can't be worth all that much any more. Surely you wouldn't report that to the police... it would just be a waste of time and money.
Apples and oranges. You speak of items actively used and possessed, while this case centers on what's basically abandoned property.
So basically anything that's not in your hands at the moment is abandoned?
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Is the copy correct for the tracking number?
Still pretty early in the month, but its some sort of cruel joke?
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I see what he's getting at. Here I am Mr Deadbeat Cacher (hypothetically) and I've left all or most of my caches for dead. I've moved to the center of the Earth or Mars where there are no caches... well... yet. Anyway, if someone hits my cache or moves my TB then I get an e-mail and while I don't geocache anymore and have no intentions to I still follow the links provided in the e-mail to read the log on the cache page... because reading the e-mail version isn't as pretty. There's an example of an inactive cacher who's last activity date could be as recent as 20 seconds ago... ehh?
Chances are though that Mr. Deadbeat cacher isn't bothering to log into the site first, just following the links. If he's not logged in it doesn't count. I don't know how long the login cookies could potentially stick around, though.
How long does the site remember your login. I'm logged in every time I visit.
Now or in 2003?
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I am curious though, are you sure it's a proxy coin?
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That was my assumption not the OP's.
Well the OP is trying to log it, so they think it's trackable too.
Which it may be. I just know I have been emailed before by people before who couldn't get my "wooden geocoins" logged correctly
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If your trying to offload a TB, maybe see if you can get some local(s) to meet with you?
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Maybe then to get closer to pleasing "all of the people all of the time" (which I know is impossible) we could have a checkbox when subscribing to the weekly newsletter to choose the default sorting, Date-Events/Distance-Caches or choose Distance for both.
I know that after I got a newbie into caching, I asked if he had seen something in his recent newsletter and he said he unsubscribed because "it was showing stuff like 200 miles away." Maybe, if we can't sort by distance, we can at least limit how far away the events are that get included.
I just went back and looked at this week's newsletter. There are 48 events, only 6 within 50 miles (probably about as far as I'd consider traveling.) 33 of them are over 100 miles away (I live outside of Charlotte). Instead of reading this overwhelming list with only 12% relevant to me, I just skip it entirely. If they were sorted by distance, I could see the top 6 and move on from there.
While that is a nice idea, and I think its a bit far to see events 200 miles away, I don't see a changing happening. The newsletter is just kinda of a one-size-fits-many snap shot of the upcoming events. No matter how it is listed at least some of the people are going to have to run PQ or whatever and actually view event pages to see if it meets whatever what reasons they go to events.
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Instead of rationing I think there should be a usage fee/tax. Perhaps one that increases the more you use the signal. like the first hour is really cheap, say a nickel. Next hour is 20 cents. Third hour a dollar, then $5 and so on. The people that are setting new find records and other stuff that are really hogging down the signal will need to be really rich... but at least the money will keep the system going.
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I would say the first thing to have done would be see if you could volunteer as some other sort of volunteers. Say as birdwatchers, or fishermen or something like that.
btw- did you go to them as a formal 'geocachers of this city/state/whatever' group or just 'me and my friends' kind of thing?
Haven't really heard of the kind of loops you describe before. Most parks seem happy to have the help and will give you bags and coordinate where the most trash is, and where to collect the filled bags.
Biggest problem I've heard of locally was one about the money to pay the landfill cost for the trash collected. Some years back a group of us wanted to clean up along this newer? rail trail. It had been abandoned for a while and used as a dumping ground
, besides trash there were tires, appliances, car parts, a carpet, etc. The people that owned the trail was a donation supported non profit. They were fine with a clean up, even would get the gates opened and such so we could drive the trail. However they had no trucks to pick up the trash, and no money available for the landfill fees. Which would have been at least several hundreds if not a few thousand . Ended up doing clean up elsewhere, that could at least pay for getting rid of the trash. And if your wondering, eventally the county parks took over maintanace of the above meationed trail. They cleaned up the trash, trimmed the trees back, etc. Its now a pretty nice trail.
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Piles of rocks, sticks, leaves etc that don't seem to have happened by natural.
Logs or stumps that are large enough to be rotted out and hollow inside.
Any sort of naturally hidden spot like a rock ledge, two tree trunks that are close together, dense bushes/shrubs, etc.
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So, what about those of us who have to work both days, 12+ hours a day? Anyone planning an early-morning or a late-night event in the Colorado Springs area, say at 6 AM or 9 PM? Seems a bit unfair to me, not only due to the icon, but that I can't celebrate 10 years of Geocaching with everyone else...
Maybe see if you can take a day off? That in itself is reason for a party IMO.
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I think you did good.
Again possibly without having seen your log about the current issue.
, besides trash there were tires, appliances, car parts, a carpet, etc. The people that owned the trail was a donation supported non profit. They were fine with a clean up, even would get the gates opened and such so we could drive the trail. However they had no trucks to pick up the trash, and no money available for the landfill fees. Which would have been at least several hundreds if not a few thousand 
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Is there a way to create a brand new bookmark list without going to the 'old' page? On the 'new' page it shows all my existing lists, but does not seem to allow the option of creating another list? Just wondering if I'm missing it, or it just only exists on the old page.