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I'm trying to put together an email parser that will pass some data from the published notification emails to my cell phone via SMS. I would like to be able to pass along a link to view the cache page via the WAP interface for the site but I can't figure out how to pass a target to the "View Cache" form from a link or how to pull up a cache directly via the WAP interface. I was hoping some one would have an idea about how to do this. If your interested here's the format I'm shooting for: P - GCXXXXXX (The P is for published you could have a code for disabled, archived etc...) Distance: 37.7 mi NE Link to cache via wap Any help is appreciated and of course I will share the PERL code when I'm done.

Actually, If you goto your Cel provider, you can find out your Cel phones SMS Email address from them. Then In Insta Notifications, set the E-mail to address as you phones address...(usually something like 1234567890@cingularME.com). Of course, you'll get 6 or 7 messages per 1 e-mail sent. What we're trying to get here is a way to check a box and get a Shortened message to your e-mail address. I.E. : (GC11BGN) Ring the Bell is PUBLISHED D/T:1/1.5 E 3.7mi See more <link>http://wap.geocaching.com/</link> On that link, it goes to the WAP related cache page. Any other questions?? The Steaks

Can I exclude the caches found by me from the notifications? Notifications are emails (sent to my mobile phone through an email-to-mobile service) sent immediately when something new appears for certain caches. Now, you can only filter on radius from a certain point, and type of notification (published/disabled/user not/enabled/etc.). But I would only like to receive information for caches that I didn't yet find. How is that possible? And if it isn't, could this feature by added? It would save a lot of emails and SMS's (and cost).

email to SMS gateways

Actually it is probably nice for those who don't hunt paperless or use Pocket Queries. Of course they most likely would not be Premium members, but just maybe they are. Now they can just get an email that a new cache is nearby and put in on their to-do list. Also will work great for those who plan ahead all week of what caches they want to hunt and have a notification setup for disabled caches in the area. Last minute check of email and you would easily see that that one cache you was going to go 10 miles out of the way to grab just got disabled. Or better yet, have it setup to send an SMS message to your cell if one is disabled. I like it. Thanks, Kenneth

hi, after a short hiatus away from geocaching, i'm back i've an unactivated geocoin for sale/exchange. anyone interested? the coin is 'united we cache' and it looks like this: drop me an email or sms/call me

Earlier could you get NCALERT to send email (and if you had a "incoming email -> SMS" change service could you get information about new caches into your phone. But nowadays? No...

...using the email-to-SMS gateway info found here

Here in Groundspeak's time zone, it's 2:00 in the morning. Well, the site is already down for quite some time (now at least 4,5 hours). By now there should be at least a statement about what is going on. Usually, technical services are monitored around the clock, and staff is notified by email/sms/pager as soon as a problem occurs. So the reaction time is very low! This is even more important if you provide a service around the clock. Geocaching is played worldwide after all.

Yeah, but it doesn't help us who uses the excellent free service of NCALERT? Sometimes can you miss new caches since it can take a couple of days for them to be reviewed... But NCALERT are a great service who sends out a mail to you with info about the caches as they are approved. And since textmessages (SMS) are very popular on cellphones, do we get one set of the NCALERT to our email in our cellphone without extra cost! I have read somewhere that you (GC.com) are planning of making an own version of NCALERT, how are that process going? It is perfect to get an email to your cellphone while out geocaching, telling you about new caches nearby...

Couple of thoughts... First, you mention having a userid at the wireless website to check in at the first checkpoint. I'd be careful about what requirements for the creation of that account you impose. I, for one, would not be terribly happy about having to provide any personal information to search for a cache this way. Second... Maybe it's just because I don't have a phone with wireless web, but I'd feel a bit shut out for not choosing the "right" phone to do this. In my case, I'm on a GSM network with a Nokia 8290. I could do this with SMS or some other form of email-based text messaging, but WAP is out for me. Obviously, I could do some kind of WAP with a Palm device (via the IR port on the phone), but that increases the complexity of searching the cache by quite a lot. Perhaps this could be done with an email-based system. That would allow more devices to be used to participate in this. Third.. Even assuming that wireless web is available on the phone, there is usually some charge for WAP use on the network. Sometimes, it's non-trivial - Sprint, I believe, charges as much as $0.69/min for Wireless Web access. The same may hold true for an email based system, but it probably would not be quite as bad. I think it all works out to be the non-inclusive nature of the hunt. It assumes a level of technology that isn't normally required for a cache-hunt. That, in itself, is not necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think the infrastructure has caught up enough to make this as easy or inexpensive as it needs to be. Also, I gather that this is an urban cache, which can be tricky. I, for one would be a bit irritated if I'd paid the wireless fees to chase after a cache that some homeless person (or other non-player) had removed. All that said, a time-limited cache is a fine idea, and I think that given the right implementation, could be a lot of fun. If you decide to proceed, I'd be interested to know how it turns out with the wireless web elements.

Or try one of these services: Email-to-SMS gateways http://www.cellular.co.za/email_to_sms_gateways.htm

A little suggestion; if you have a cellphone that can receive email, for example can people mail to my cellphone and I recieve the mail as a SMS. Go the the NCAlert website and write down the mailaddress for your cellphone. Voila! Every time a new cache is approved nearby your home will you recieve an email to your cellphone also...

Thats great, thanks warthog. I can also meet you if that would be easier, let me know via email or sms.

Try your phone network. Orange offer a free sms alert for emails to one of their address. Not sure about the rest though Orange email

If you don't have a Yahoo mail account, here are the details of their SMS email service. -

At this point someone clever needs to go and write a program that sends SMS messages from an email account!

Personally, I'd rather the site work as well as it did a few months ago before byting off new projects. Fortunately, this feature doesn't *have* to be done by the master site; it can be done (and has beern) by other sites. Check out Skydiver's alert tool. http://www.rusticweb.com/geocaching/ncalert/ It will deliver the notice to your email. If your email address happens to bang a gong on your SMS fone, good for you. :-)

Re: Kablooey's idea for a notification system: I would definitly be interested in that, but agree with others that a Yahoo-group is not the way to go because it is a magnet for spam. Any other automatic notification system (email or SMS) would be better than that.

Verizon's also got the Kyocera 7135. Color PalmOS unit. Has graphical web browser with Java as well as a text-only (much quicker) and WAP browsers. Email and SMS too. Will also work as an external modem for a laptop with speeds purportedly up to 56K. Was at a stop on Memorial Day I "felt" would be a good cache site. Used the Kyo to search and found the page (and the cache). If they had a way to access the GPS in it, I'd have no real reason to carry any other device.

I'm enjoying my m130. I can beam calendar & phone numbers to and from my cell phone. If I beam an appointment from my phone & then sync my palm with my yahoo calendar, Yahoo will then send my phone a SMS alarm. (It's fun to go in circles.) I'm still trying to figure out a way to sync for my Yahoo email and some other web pages.

What a fun idea! I'd imagine a database of longitudes/latitudes of where you will be in the web cams view. Then you need to save the picture to the cam cache details page via some device ... The only limiting factor would be how to activate the capture of a picture. I can send email and ICQ with my cell phone via SMS. Or I can use my phone and Palm and use a browser. WAP is also an option. I tested geocaching.com/wap successfully. ------------------ Peter Scholtz www.biometrics.co.za