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This would be useful.

Good Idea. It would get me to add benchmarking back into the trips we take.

Perhaps someone with Admin in their identification could give us some information. I seem to be getting the rest of my mail so it doesn't appear to be the e-mail (gmail) account.

Is there a problem with the Insta-Notify? I have not received notices of the last couple of traditional caches placed within the radius I specified. Are others having a problem with this lately?

Thanks, Nate.

Here's my experience this morning. Needed a pq, filled in the data, previewed, looked good, submitted, received, put into GSAK, put into PDA and GPS. Ten minutes.

Two thoughts. 1] "Preview" your pocket query before you run it. That will show you whether it does what you want without wasting one of your daily 5. 2] When you get that error message. Click on Refresh. Most of the time you'll proceed on your merry way to wherever you were headed. I've submitted those before and have never, ever heard back. Now, as long as I can keep going my attitude is "Who knows, who cares?" Cache on.

For some of us this would be totally useless. If one is doing a challenge cache such as Sacramento in 115 Minutes, GC1F0QW, the owner wants us to complete a bookmark list so that he may check to see that the requirements have been completed. We need an option where a cache would be automatically added to a bookmark list when it is found. Might it be useful to have a checkmark appear by caches we've found that are "bookmarked" like in a "nearest" search to ease in bulk deletes?

This is a fine idea.

I just tried another site that uses interactive maps with Google and encountered the same problem. I'm guessing that there is massive scurrying going on down at Google. It doesn't appear to be geocaching.com specific.

JC Geo and I posted the same problem at the same time. Please remove one thread or the other. The following is my post from the other thread. Is there something suddenly dreadfully wrong with Google Maps? I went to a cache, clicked on "view map" and got intermittent blocks of maps and "We are sorry but we don't have maps at this zoom level for this region." They had them earlier today. I tried another random cache in another state and got the same thing. What's up? Here is additional information for this post. IE 7 First noticed on GCZ5KP Tested on GCYJEG

Is there something suddenly dreadfully wrong with Google Maps? I went to a cache, clicked on "view map" and got intermittent blocks of maps and "We are sorry but we don't have maps at this zoom level for this region." They had them earlier today. I tried another random cache in another state and got the same thing. What's up?

Exactly what I did "wrong." I've never been a patient person and, at this age, I'll probably not change. Now that the e-mail problem has been solved, all is good.

Hmmmm. Maybe my topic "validation codes" is really related to yours. I, too, use gmail and suddenly started have difficulties this afternoon. I tried changing my e-mail address away from gmail and then back and now can't get the validation code and my account can't be validated. Thus, I can't send or receive e-mail. This doesn't help you but it lets me take a different look at my problem while letting you know your not alone in your problem.

Is this where you went to get a Validation Code? Validate My Account Yep. However the validation code they sent didn't work because they said that it wasn't the "latest" one but they never sent one after that one.

Now I get a validation code, try it and they say it's not the latest one so it doesn't work. Can somebody out there please help? Is there a moderator monitoring this that can send me an answer?

Now my account is not validated and I can't get a validation code. What is going on here?

Is anyone else having trouble getting validation codes? I just went caching with a grandson and then set up his account. The validation code has not arrived although it says that it has been sent. How long should I expect this to take? I'm using gmail and do not usually have any trouble getting geocaching mail.

First, thanks for responding with Lil Devil's adjustment suggestion. However, I'd still prefer that this be a choice, as mention above, that I could opt into or out of (my choice is obvious from the beginning of this thread). We get to choose whether or not to include Location and Occupation if I recall correctly, I did that a long time ago. Why not these things as well. I also like the idea of moving (and shrinking) the Forum posts link up behind the Forum title. The higher on the page the user generated information is the better I like it. I'd even like that to be a choice I could opt out of. The link for that could be, maybe it already is, on the forum pages. While we're at it, how about putting the "Member since" and "Last visit" on the same line or without a blank line between them? As I said, before, the higher on the page the user generated information is the better I like it.

Now, you get it.

Yeah, right. I just want the option of not having it front and center on my profile page.

I find mine in the middle of the screen between the "Status: Premium Member" line and the "Email Address: Send Message" line. That ain't no upper right hand corner.

The profile page is the way that we, as cachers, present ourselves to the caching community. I, personally, would not want what appears to me to be begging as part of my profile. Given the choice, I wouldn't put it there and it is not the image I wish to portray about me as a cacher. If it was something that cachers could choose to opt into or out of ... fine but this was not the way it appeared.

Can we opt to have this link removed from our individual Profile page? It adds nothing and is unseemly.

Please remove the new "Extend ... Membership" link from everyone's profile page. It is rude and insulting.