The Reformed Druids

The early returns are in and rather confirm my thoughts. Thanks.

I would appreciate your views on the following situation. A cacher is moving and adopts out his cache(s). Geocaching.com no longer reflects them as belonging to him (as the CO) as shown on the map but does still show them as having been placed by him on the cache pages. Is it kosher for him now to find and log those same caches? Thanks. TRD

What impact will changing my home location (e.g., to another state) have on my existing caching statistics - especially those involving distance of a cache from my home location. Is the old data preserved using the previous home location and new calculation begun using the new home location as a reference for all subsequent finds?

Thanks for the note about "retracted"; I will add that to my notifications. Given how far off the "correct" coordinates, I am intrigued that it was found in the first place. A little mind meld, perhaps, with the CO?

Thanks for the information. I was confused that it had been active and then just disappeared without a trace rather than archived. I am guessing that if republished it will come back with the same cache id. It will be interesting if the corrected coordinates violate the separation (or some other)rule and the cache remains forever unpublished. Then some people will have legitimately have found a cache that does not exist.

On 8/15/2013 GC4JCE8 was published in Wisconsin by Bec. Since then I have logs showing that it was found 6 times, the last of those being on 9/9/13. Today (9/26) when I searched geocaching.com for the cache I received a response that the cache was never published. Is this just a bug?

I am having the same problem... no good answer from the Geocache problem solvers... have you found a solution as yet?? I have not reached a solution with Mindspring yet, but I have solved the problem by opening a G-mail account. It is a workaround since it is yet another e-mail address, but it does work. However, I cannot forward notification e-mails from the G_mail account to my Mindspring account.

Guess I have to contact my ISP and find out what they are up to this time . . . I spoke with the Mindspring tech support desk and at first they told me that they do not deny e-mail delivery unless I report a site as spam. I reminded the rep that the statement was untrue since they have a "known spam" list that is in effect whether I blacklist someone or not. The rep finally admitted that they do have an "abuse" process whereby a domain can be blacklisted. I will contact that group at Mindspring and see if I can't get the domains unblocked. In the interim, I have created a GMail account and notifications work just fine. However, as someone noted above, I cannot forward those e-mails to my Mindspring e-mail account (although I do not the the 'relay rejected' notification. They just never show up.

Thanks for the suggestions - I will check all of them. I am confused, however, by the fact that I receive weekly cache updates without any problems. For the present, I have modified the spam filter to hold, rather than delete, any messages so that I can see if anything from geocaching.com is being flagged. Is there any other domain besides the above that I should be checking for?

Can anyone suggest a reason why I do not receive e-mail notifications for watched sites or trackable items (travel bugs or geocoins). I DO receive weekly geocache activity e-mails, and there is no indication that the geocache.com domain is blocked by my ISP (Mindspring). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

I don't think you can geocache with one of those. You need a GPS that let's you enter coords. Miragee gave some good recommendations. Duplicate post removed.

I don't think you can geocache with one of those. You need a GPS that let's you enter coords. Miragee gave some good recommendations. Actually, I did a little geocaching with a NUvi (600, I think) in Canada over the 4th of July holiday and it worked ok. You can enter coordinates and build a waypoint. It doesn't have a compass but we were still able to find the caches. I was impressed with its satellite tracking ability as we were hunting in an urban forest in Beaconsfield on the West Island and it never lost lock. I don't know if I would want to use it all the time since other units are more 'geocaching friendly', but in a pinch it let us hunt. What it REALLY convinced me of, however, was my need to replace my 5 year old Garmin Vista with a unit with a new chipset.