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And what would you expect the MOD to say? Something is obviously broken and a MOD can't fix it. I didn't get my PQ either. We had gotten used to 24/7 PQ service. Time to get used to the new reality. Something to the effect, yes we know there is a problem and someone will or is looking into it. Or maybe a "Working on it" would be nice. I doubt it will be fixed today any way's. It's almost a national holiday. Just would be nice to hear if TPTB know there is a problem or not. I really don't need a PQ today, so I'm not that worked up about it. I usually only run a PQ once or twice a week. But this is affecting more than just PQ's. No notification's are going out at all. Few owner log notification's are going threw, few Travel bug log notification's are going threw and so on... I just noticed this with a PQ first then noticed I didn't get an owner log notification. I haven't looked threw my TB's to see if one of them may have moved yet. If I really, really needed to find a cache today I would just pull the info from the cache page via the GPX link or print it out. But now I'm wondering if all the TB's and coin's I picked up yesterday, if the owner's got a notification of them being picked up.

I am hoping a mod would comment soon on one of the thread's going. This e-mail problem is more than just PQ's and watchlist notifaction's are not working as well.

I guess I started the other thread with basically the same problem just a little before the OP started this one. Here's a link to it. PQ problem

I'm using msn and having the same problem. I guess I made another thread about it as well. I'm wondering if you try your "my find" query and see if that comes threw. That's been the only PQ, I've gotten to run and receive. I seem to be getting all the other e-mail but just not my PQ one's. The PQ's have ran too. Can some one from Groundspeak look into this?

I just check that setting and it's set to send to account's e-mail address. It's like they are lost in internet land somewhere. but I would think that "my find's PQ" would be lost as well. I double checked my set e-mail address and that is correct. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with getting a PQ other than one taking a while to run. But these are running very quickly, just I'm not receiving them. That's nice to know the 5 PQ limit is reset at midnite. Thanks.

Ok, today I was trying to update my PQ and get my GPSr up to date. It's been a week or two since my last PQ. So I checked the box to run my normal PQ that I use and I clicked on the my find's PQ as well. I got the my find's PQ but the other one never showed up. So i went and looked and acording to the site the PQ ran, but I didn't get it. So I made a copy of that PQ and ran it again. Same thing, the PQ ran but I never recieved it. It's not in my junk folder or anything. The my find's PQ came fine. Is anyone else having a problem? It's not that it's taking a long time to run, I'm not getting them but it show's they ran. I've looked up on my account and my e-mail is good. I've been getting watchlist notifaction's and new cache alert's. Help...I've only got two more PQ's I can run before I'm maxed out for 24 hour's and really would like to get updated for the week.

Time, cache density, not willing to skip a cache even though you don't care for that kind of hide, go paperless, and make some "family day's" caching trip's. There's nothing like caching for some good family bonding. I don't think there's really any secret to it, just how much time your willing to spend in this hobby. But I've found over time, those number of find's don't really mean much when I go back and think about all the good time's I've had and neat places I've seen thanks to caches.

I saw recently at an event a post by the cache host what he did to help with TB's and coin's so they where "check" out as they left. He made up a list of all the trackable's the morning of the event. As they got dropped off at the table he wrote down who brought them. they where all placed on the table for people to discover if they wanted. Then he made a check out system. By writing down as people where leaving who was taking the bug's. The left over bug's that nobody took he took and left in caches over the next couple of day's. A day after the event everybug was logged out of the event. It was set up so well, the process really didn't add much extra to the event. Just something I saw done not too long ago and it seemed like it worked well.

Well, there's the easy way out with copy and pasting your log's but I haven't found a way to easily make log's without visiting each cache page. I think if you are using GSAK you can set up a macro and enter in your log as you go or "off-line" then the macro will take your log and log it for you. This may be easy for future cache runs if you are using a computer in the car and type your log's as you go along then when you get home just run the macro. Now I do understand where you are coming from as I've found 101 caches in a day. I went threw and wrote a unique log for each cache and yes it took a long time to do. But on the flip side I told the stories of what happened as I search for each cache. This wasn't easy to do but I figured this was the best thing to do. A cacher doesn't put out cache's to get the same log over and over again and they deserve a little bit of a thanks or a nice log to read. But I tend to write longer log's then most and for some reason I even have quite a few people that look me up just to go threw and read my log's. I'm not sure what my current "find" count is but it's over 2000 finds, and I am proud to say I've never copy and pasted a single log.

You may just want to try sending a request again. If it's not in your pending request's it may have not went threw. I've had this happen a couple of times but was able to send another one and it worked.

I get a spolier e-mail every once in a while but not very often. I do log all my DNF's but usually I get an e-mail asking first if I want or need a hint or spolier from the owner. I've gotten a few e-mai'sl that say they have posted a spolier but they have put it a the bottom of the e-mail so if I don't want it I don't read threw it and get a hint I didn't want. But I think I post more DNF's than the average user. I don't mind them as long as it's stated in the beginning of the e-mail that there's a spolier so I can choose to read ahead or not.

Not a thing wrong with bring it here. I think the only complant's would be that you exposed the cache and didn't just ask about it in general, but I don't really see a problem with it.

Some waypoint's you may want to write down or keep in a seperate place for future referance in case you're thinking about hiding a cache sometime. I don't know if you've hidden anything or not. But if you have a multi nearby you will have to stear 528 feet from every stage in the multi. If you are thinking about hiding a cache in the area of another cache then it's easy to put in all the waypoint's as you scope out a hiding spot and then it's an easy way to know if you're far enough away instead of trying to remember where all the stage's are. But I don't think I'd keep everything. Just in area's that are close to where I live so if I ever want to hide a cache, I can again just put in the waypoint's of all the caches there and can verify if I'm far enough away.

Now that's a neat challenge cache with a great theme!!!!

I'm pretty sure that's what the phrase "something fairly similar indicates. If you wish to test the strength of this guideline, hop in your car and drive 500 miles in a direction you don't normally travel, to an area you have never cached in, where you have no friends, relatives or even acquaintances. Plop a film can in the shrubbery of the nearest Burger King and see if it'll get published. While it's not impossible, I would say it's unlikely, unless you invoke The Power of Aunt Edna. If it's a B.K. shrub they are tossing it in they make be able to invoke The power of the King.

Reviewer Jones is a 4 time winner of the Reviewer of the Year award, a member of the Cache Reviewers Hall of Fame, selected by the Cache Reviewers Association Periodical magazine as one of the top 10 reviewers in the world, a National Merit Reviewer, president of the International Association of Cache Reviewers and one of only 5 reviewers selected to be a member of the US National Reviewer Team to be sent to Sarajevo next summer for the Cache Review Olympics. Even then, it is possible that he made a mistake. It happens to the best of them. Heck, Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times and even though Reviewer Jones has been referred to by some as the Babe Ruth of reviewers, his track record is actually far better than The Bambino's. I was just wondering who put it out, not who reviewed it. What side of the border would have given more of an idea who placed it. I mostly was wondering if a newer cacher had placed it or if and experienced one did. I wasn't implying any fault on the reviewer. If it was a newer cacher that was kind of in my area, I'd be happy to help them with some advice on making a cache that fit the guidelines. But since the whole cache has now been washed away, I can't find out who placed it and try to offer any help to the cacher if it's a noob. Reviewer Jones, does a really great job in the area he covers. He always very prompt to review a cache and really helpful when trying to work one out to fit guideline's. I've found quite a few that he's reviewed and they has some really good and fun cache's in that area and I wouldn't question his judgement. In fact I remember him shutting one down that some of the area cacher's had trashed the place looking for a cache and only would make it active again when the cacher's that trashed the place went and fixed what they all tore up. A very good call in my book and that says a lot about him having good judgement when a problem does arise. My guess is yes the cache page was changed after it was given the green light. Sorry, if anyone felt my post imply fault on the reviewer but that wasn't my intention. I just thought if it's a noobie and they are close to me, I could send them a e-mail and offer to help them if they don't fully understand the guidelines. (which obviously they are having problem's with) Or I could refer them to a couple of friend's down in that area that would gladly help them place a cache that met the guidelines.

I wish you could, but I understand why you can't. The bad part about you-tube is you just don't know what's going to pop up in a "related" video section, but if you could embed the code you wouldn't have that. I believe though this opens the door for scripting and that can open the door for virus's. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that. I would like to know. On every cache page you can link to a "user's webpage"? If one was to set up more than one cache with a link like this would the link be able to be different on the cache page's or would it be the same? I guess can you setup more than one webpage or are you stuck with just one?

If the listed cord's takes you to a container or something where you just have to do a calculation, I would say it's a multi, unless it's a complicated puzzle. If it's just add this and that and subtract this, then I would say it's a multi. But I understand what your talking about. I've got one that is a 6 stage cache but at the first stage is a puzzle to figure out to move on. due to the puzzle being there and it's a hard puzzle, I listed it as a "mystery" or puzzle cache.

Hey Lyle, I tried to look up the listing and it says that number hasn't been published yet. I don't know if they shut it down all ready or not. But I've never seen TPTB wipe out a whole listing. (not to say it hasn't or won't happen. I would say yup it's a virtual if there is no logbook to sign. If it was an ALR (additional logging requirement) then they should have made it a mystery cache. But no logbook or logsheet to sign makes it a virtual, and nope new one's are agaist guidelines. Except for an Earthcache which have some different rule's attached. I'm kind of wondering what side of the border it was on?

I enjoy taking a ride on a bike trail and doing some caches. In fact I got my mountian bike just for caching. We do have quite a few bike trail's around here though. But I've found sometime's a bike is pretty handy.

I always feel weird doing one. If the GPSr is pointing me in the direction of one and I haven't read the cache description, I'll skip it, but if I have read it or can read it, I pay attention to what is said, so I don't got poking around someone else's yard by accident. I wouldn't say I hate them, just feel weird. But I did do one that I was out in the rain trying to sign the log book and the owner saw me and was nice enough to let me inside to sign and I got to meet with him and chat for a while. But believe me I'm not a social type, so I am in and out of one of those hides as quickly as possible.

I think you hit the nail right on the head. I noticed I had deleted my cookies and when to the site the other day and nope I wasn't logged in. So I logged in and checked the "remember me" and tried it again and it work's fine now. Thanks again Keystone!!! I just wonder why though it takes you to a "submit what you where doing to help improve the site" instead of something saying you are not logged in, log in to view. Thanks to the other's that reply as well. I did try to do a refresh and that just brought up the same "error".

You can drop an e-mail to contact@geocaching.com. I'm sure they can help you out there. I've never dealt with receiving one and don't know how that side of it work's.

No I just looked them up too. What I did find interesting is how some caches got disabled and how some where archived.

This used to happen every "once in a blue moon" on me. But today every link I clicked on, from a geocaching e-mail such as one's on my watchlist, or my own, I click on the link to take me to the cache page and it take's me to the "what where you doing" page to submit there was a problem and what you where doing to help GS find and fix the problem. This has happened on every link I've clicked on tonight in about 12 email's. Just wonder if anyone else is getting these or what's happening or if someone else can try it out and see if it work's for them. And I'm using IE 7 on Vista. (I know, I know) Thanks!!!