CelticDave

I have to admit that the first time I took Mrs. CCC to a cemetary for a cache she was mortified. Since then some of our fondest geocaching memories are of the history that we have learned while at cemetaries caching. If you want to learn about people and history, these are the places. Our favorites are pioneer cemetaries and those with the types of memorials that we should never forget because of what the represent. I agree that placement is the key and I don't support caches that are placed in a cemetary in an innappropriate way. But for those done respectfully, count us in, we will go to as many as we can. I can tell you that there will be a cache placed at my grave when I go but I hope it won't be placed for a long time.

I had done a couple of cemetary caches when one day my wife went with me when we went to a cemetary as part of a cache machine. She thought it was a little wierd at first but soon we were both reading and enjoying what we learned. After finding some really old cemetaries we both enjoy them a lot. It's not even really about the cache, but paying our respects at these places, especially to those pioneers of our past. It is just another way that caching takes you to places that you would either not know about or go to even if you did. Be it the cache descriptions, the writings of those who find them or inscriptions left by loved ones on the tombstones of their family. We never leave a cemetary without having learned something about the history of the area where we are. I think cemetary caches are great IMHO

This was the conversation I just had with AOL regarding the email problem. I have not received any GC mail since Friday. They finally acknowledged that GC has been blocked from aol servers. They suggested that Grounspeak call their postmaster team to work out the issue. I have never had this problem before and I hope it is resolved. I am getting ready for a geocaching vacation and just got all my pocket queries set Will Groundspeak see this from here or where can I send this? 4:02:24 PMSystemWelcome Dave ... 4:02:24 PMSystemConnecting to server. Please wait... 4:02:24 PMSystemConnected to wnaad01o.ops.aol.com 4:02:43 PMSystemAOLTechSDH has joined this session! 4:02:43 PMSystemConnected with AOLTechSDH 4:02:43 PMSystemHello, Dave. Welcome to Live Technical Support. My name is Sherwin. 4:02:43 PMSystemDave stated the question or problem as: 2nd attempt to get help after help person closed session without finishing. 4:02:43 PMSystemAre you signed on with the same computer that you need assistance with? 4:02:56 PMYouyes 4:03:13 PMAOLTechSDHNice to meet you, Dave. : ) 4:03:29 PMYouyou to 4:03:33 PMAOLTechSDHI'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but it appears the previous consultant lost connection to your conversation. Unfortunately, I don't know what you were discussing. Can you please give me a summary? 4:03:42 PMYouMelanie bailed on me in the middle of things 4:04:12 PMYouIf I could paste in this window I could bring you up to speed 4:04:31 PMYounot receiving outside email 4:04:52 PMYoumany people are having the same problem from a site I am expecting email from 4:05:09 PMYouit has been described as a throttling issue on aol's part 4:05:20 PMYouNone of my settings have been changed 4:05:31 PMYouall of my spam filters are off 4:06:14 PMYouspam filter was set to permanetly delete, as it has always been 4:06:24 PMAOLTechSDHAOL may have received large amounts of junk e-mail from someone using this domain name. Please ask the sender of the e-mail to ask their system administrator or Internet Service Provider to call the AOL® Postmaster Hotline at 1-888-212-5537. 4:06:24 PMAOLTechSDHThe Postmaster Team, which is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, can work with the ISP to quickly resolve the issue. Additional information is available at the AOL Postmaster Web Site: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/ 4:07:34 PMYouthis is a stable site, geocaching.com 4:08:49 PMYouI am getting ready to leave on vaction and receiving email from this site is part of my vacation activities 4:08:59 PMYouI need to know that it is working 4:09:31 PMYou? 4:09:55 PMAOLTechSDHWhen was the last time you received an Email from them? 4:10:02 PMYouFriday 4:10:55 PMAOLTechSDHThank you. Dave, please ask the geocaching.com Support Team to call the number I gave you above. 4:11:15 PMAOLTechSDHLet me also file a problem report for you about this. 4:11:45 PMYouMelanie said something about my blocked spam filter being full and needing to be cleared 4:12:17 PMYouI don't have any spam in my folder and bloced mail was being deleted, what needs to be cleared? 4:13:16 PMAOLTechSDHI understand, this means that their Email was being blocked on our server and not in your Mail Control. 4:13:46 PMAOLTechSDHOur Postmaster Team will be able to allow their Email from being sent to our server. 4:15:10 PMYouOkay, so you are familiar with this issue being reported from other then? Is that correct? 4:16:17 PMYouWhy would there be a change that would suddenly block outside email? 4:16:56 PMAOLTechSDHIt is possible that some AOL members who received an Email from that web site have reported the EMail as a Spam. 4:17:17 PMAOLTechSDHThis is the reason why our Postmaster Team have blocked the Email coming from their web site. 4:17:18 PMYouI doubt that, we are all members 4:17:37 PMAOLTechSDHPlease ask them to call the numbers I gave you above to resolve this problem. 4:17:39 PMYouand we are talking about thousands of people 4:17:56 PMYouI am just trying to understand this 4:18:37 PMAOLTechSDHYes, AOL have detected that their web site have sent too much Email to the AOL Email Server. 4:19:07 PMAOLTechSDHOnly Postmasters on AOL and their web site can resolve this problem. 4:19:17 PMAOLTechSDHYou can give them the number I gave you above to resolve this problem. 4:20:18 PMAOLTechSDHAgain, I apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced. I appreciate your patience and your desire to get this matter resolved. 4:21:00 PMYouCan I get account credit? 4:21:58 PMAOLTechSDHI am sorry Dave, we will not be able to give a credit about this issue. 4:22:08 PMAOLTechSDHTo speak to an AOL® Customer Care Consultant about your account, please call toll-free 1-888-265-8003. Our Member Account Services Consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 4:23:13 PMYouThank you 4:23:19 PMAOLTechSDHThank you for visiting AOL® Live Help. 4:23:19 PMSystemAOLTechSDH has left this session! 4:23:19 PMSystemThe session has ended!

Thanks for responding, If I am looking at a record in Cachemate that is from a pocket query I don't see the entire page, I see the name, geocache, view online, edit record, edit log and the coords, nothing else. I like how they appear once I move the record to a database that I have named and like being able to to configure the columns to what I want to see. It appears to me that I have to move them one at a time and not in groups to those databases. I was hoping for another way that would be faster. Don't get me wrong, I don't want anyone to think that I am slamming this program. I am just trying to wrap my brain around this and really want it to work There are no GPX files to move after they're imported. If you're talking about records, there's a Move Records option in the List menu, and a Move button in the Bookmarks dialog. What exactly do you mean by that? None of the description text is truncated by CacheMate, and it shows the full text of the hints and the last 8 logs.

I am a former Sonar user and wanted to try Cachemate when it became available for pocket pc. I registered it and have full access but I just can't get comfortable with it. Even reading the help section I can't figure out how to move gpx files around other than one by one, and when I open a pocket query it does not show the full entry for the cache. I am fairly computer literate and I imagine that I am just not doing it right. Any help here or via email would be appreciated. Thanks, Celtic Cacher

Me: 44 The Clan: 37, 14 and 13

This was our first cache machine and we really enjoyed it. Nice to meet some new folks and put faces with names. We ended up with 28 found. Thanks for putting together a great event.

I really like ITRAC, I think that says it all. Finally got my first CI rescue yesterday. Stranded bug in a cache not visited in over two months. I have read the postings after suggesting some policies for rescue. If you are going to call it a rescue only after two weeks then I think we lose legitimacy. That is just caching. I originally suggested 1 month. After reading the posts I agree that two months is much more reasonable for the purposes of this group. I totally agree with what someone said, that bugs should be moving. If bugs are being placed in caches with low activity or where they will have to sit through the winter frozen, perhaps that was not a good placement for a travel bug (imho). I really belive that we need a logo and standards. There should not be a free for all, deciding what to do as individuals. I did not see responses to my suggestions for CI, MIA and HR. I hope that those may be the standard types of rescue taken on.

I believe that we can give ourselves legitimacy by setting some standards for the rescue and recovery of lost or inactive travel bugs. I have a few ideas that I would like to put forth and see if anyone else agrees. Here are some ideas for classifications for missing or lost bugs. Please add your own ideas and let’s get something together. CI (Cache Inactivity): Travel bugs that have been left in a cache that has had no activity for a prolonged period of time. My suggestion would be to launch a rescue mission after one month of inactivity to get the bug moving again. MIA (Missing in Action): Travel bugs that have gone missing from the last cache they were logged in. Some may not log the bug for some time so again I would suggest bugs missing with no log activity for over one month start the SAR investigation. HR (Hostage Rescue): Travel bugs that have been in the hands of a cacher for an extended period of time. Again my suggestion would be one month before a rescue mission is launched. I think this is a good start and I think as members of the ITBRL we can give this activity a place in good standing in the geo-caching world. If you make a rescue or recovery or initiate an investigation into a particular lost bug, place a note in the bug’s history so that the owner knows that there is a rescue effort in progress where the bug went missing from. I suggested having an identifying icon for members so that when we do something people will recognize our efforts. The response was that we needed recognition from Ground Speak. I think that once it is seen how successful we can be with our efforts that this activity will become a standard activity and Ground Speak will embrace it. In my humble opinion.

How about some kind of icon or something identifying us as members so that we can include it in our profiles? Just a thought, I think this is a great idea and I will do my best to help bugs along

Let's try this again. Thought I posted here the first time. Not sure what happened

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