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We put up a couple more of the Prize and Collector Edition coins if anyone is interested. Both the silver (Prize edition) and black (Collector's Edition) coins are extremely limited so they are being auctioned. Most of these have gone as prizes to Delaware geocachers. There are three coins in the 2007 set. Please note: For the Gold standard edition coins, if you are local and you are coming to one of the Delaware events, don't purchase the coin online. Just let me know and we'll bring one to the event to save you the shipping cost.

We only did 500 of the gold coins. (corrected 10/2- 500, not 400)

There are still some of these 2007 coins available from the website, or if you are in the neighborhood you can get one at the Third Annual Delaware Fall Geo Event this weekend and save the shipping costs. We also did a two-tone (nickel/antique silver) version of the coin that was our "prize coin" and the only way to get that one was to complete the challenge. We decided to make a VERY FEW of these available to collectors who were not able to participate in the challenge but still want a coin. If you are interested, the auction for one of these Prize Edition coins is up now.

Thanks, everyone for the nice comments on our coin. The event was a huge success- we gave away over a hundred prizes, ate lots of food, and everyone got to learn a little something about Delaware!

The Geocachers of Delaware Club has just concluded the Delaware C.A.C.H.E., the Cache Around the Colonial Hundreds Event, a geocaching challenge to complete a series of caches, one placed in each of the twenty-four "colonial" Hundreds of Delaware. Delaware is the only state that still uses the Hundreds division, a term that designated an area of land capable of sustaining about one hundred families. To commemorate the event, each cacher who completed the challenge received an "award edition" of the 2007 coin, a 1.75mm two-tone nickel and antique silver coin for their efforts. The coin features a Delaware Minuteman with GPS, ammo can, and Brown Bess guarding the Delaware flag, while side two has the state map with the twenty-four hundreds highlighted along with the Blue Hen. The coin also has a animated minuteman icon for your collection. An excellent antique gold version of this GC.com trackable coin is available for sale. The coins are in-stock and shipping now. The cost is $9 plus $2.50 shipping. They are currently available online at: 2007 Delaware Coin More detailed information about the Delaware challenge and the coin will be posted on the Delaware Geocaching website very shortly. Currently you can only place US domestic orders online until we get the new international rates figured out, but international orders can be reserved by using the email link on the coin order page, and we'll reserve the coins for you and let you know what the shipping cost will be.

My club is hosting an event to celebrate the end of a geocaching challenge, and I'd like to run a slide show of all the photos that folks posted. There were twenty-four caches, and each cache has a couple hundred photos posted in the logs. Does anyone have a better way to download the photos rather than one at a time? Or point me to a spot where this has already been answered. I searched, but no luck. Thanks!

Thanks, Elias. I really appreciate the reply.

Thanks, carleenp. I tried "submitting a ticket" but that was completely ignored also. I'd rather be told to "piss off" than be ignored. At the risk of opening myself up to tons of junk mail, if anyone reading this wants to send an email to: test@dinobalz.com It would be interesting to see if I can't receive mail from anyone else besides GC.com.

Just tried it again and it still is not working. If I use my business email, validation email is received. If I use my personal email (geocaching@dinobalz.com)- no email received. That email address works fine from every other system I've tried. Just not GC.com I'm sure the Groundspeak admins are busy, which I can appreciate, but I think it is resonable to expect a response. After all, I do pay to use this site. I believe it is a Groundspeak issue, and must be affecting more users than just me.

This should be a pretty simple request for the email admin so I can use the correct email address again. Thanks.

Bump

I'm not able to get mail from geocaching.com to certain domains (not AOL). When I update my address to the one I want to use, the account page says account must be verified, but I don't received the verification code. No junk filters in the way, and my account has been active for about a year. Mail sent from other sites to the same address work ok. I've tested sending to the domain from multiple services. This only occurs when I set my email address to an account in my personal domain (dinobalz.com). Works OK if I set it to an address in another domain. Email to that domain may have bounced for a while some time ago. Will a certain number of bounced messages cause the mail server to not send mail to that entire domain anymore??

My issue seems to be a different problem; possible much easier to correct. I'll open a separate topic.

I'm having a different issue: not getting any mail from geocaching.com. My account page says account must be verified, but I don't received the verification code. No junk filters in the way, and my account has been active for about a year. Mail sent from other sites to the same address work ok. Additional info: This only occurs when I set my email address to an account in my personal domain (dinobalz.com). Works OK if I set it to an address in another domain. Email to that domain may have bounced a while some time ago. Will a certain number of bounced messages cause the mail server to not send mail to that entire domain anymore??

If you had one of the "World66.com" maps to show your geocaching states, that's not javascript, just an image. I think it's a problem with the world66.com site. Looks like they made some changes.

Is anyone else having a problem getting the emails when the pq finally does run? What I mean is, the pq list shows the query ran, but sometimes the email never arrives. I also occasionally do not receive log entries for my caches and forum reply notifications. I don't believe it to be a "filter" issue as I'm not using any blacklists and I get notification from the server of anything rejected on my end.

I can confirm the testing of the others-- I have a single pq that is scheduled to run several times a week. It runs later and later each day until it eventually gets skipped. When I modified the pq to "uncheck after it runs" it still does not show up for quite a while (hours), but if I copy to a new pq, the new one shows up right away. As I expect it should since priority goes to new queries. I suspect that those who run their queries "on demand" use this "copy" routine, as this is the only way I can find to generate a pq and get it immediately. The Groundspeak recommendation that you only run a pq when you need it would encourage this. If that's the case, and the Groundspeak perferred method, then why not have a "download" function for existing pq's (for gpx files not just loc's)? If nothing else that should relieve some burden of transfering the file to an email server. If this is not the Groundspeak preferred method, than I agree with the other posters that it makes more sense to give priority to the scheduled pq's than the new ones. An added membership cost of "on demand" pq's would be acceptable to me as well. If nothing else, the pq restrictions to be set to the limits of what the system can bear.

Now that I did some reading and understand the process a little better... I vote yea for creating the catagory.

Yeah, I'll print it or send him a screen capture. Not a big problem; I was just looking for a more elegant way...

I'm working on placing a cache at the DE Natural History museum. I spoke with the director about geocaching he seemed really interested. I'm pretty sure he will OK it, but he has to bring it up with the board first, and of course explain it all to them. (Funny; he was calling them a bunch of mugglers by the time I left!) Since it will be a mystery cache, I'd like to be able to show him what the actual cache page would look like. If I fill out the form but leave it as inactive, will be be able to see it before I submit it for final geocaching.com approval? Or am I the only one who can see it until it is approved?

I just received the March 2006 issue of "Highways" from the Good Sam club, and the article was in it. It is short (only 2 pages) but read pretty well and was complete with photos from Groundspeak. I think you have to be a member of the Good Sam club to get the magazine, but if anyone that can't get it wants to see it I'd be happy to scan and post.

Closing topic.

Got it! Thank you!!!

Is there something special that must be done to add a link in the sig line, or am I having a senior moment? I tried entering in my profile as below-- the text shows up with the reference stripped out. Example: <a href="http://www.geocaching.com" target="_blank">Geocaching!</a></p> I read all the FAQ's and scanned through the forum but did not find any answer. If anyone cares to point out my error or provide a link to where I should have read how to do it, I would appreciate it.

Yeah, I've been unchecking the box each time. Using a 'view' each time I moved the map is a pain, so I uncheck the box, move the map, recheck the box, etc. I didn't realize the ability to change the refresh rate was there-- that should do the trick. Thanks much for the help, guys! I never tried using the GPX file either but that sounds like a good solution for planning local routes. Now if there were only a mobile version of GE...