Read Your Pocket Query Emails.

[+DomHeknows]

I've just noticed that since the 10th August all my pocket queries have contained a link to click to ensure that the pocket queries run next week.

I'm guessing that this is due a capacity problem at Groundspeak and they are hoping that people who don't read the emails won't click on the links to renew the cache. This works if you base your argument on "those who don't read the emails don't need the query" but ignores the fact that if you have gsak downloading the emails then you don't need to read them as gsak reads them straight into the database.

 

Hopefully this will help those who do what I do and just have them loaded straight into gsak.

[+The Klever Boys]

I had some arrive on the 8th and the link wasn't there then, so it's obviously a very recent "feature".

 

Many thanks for the tipoff!

 

Russ

[+Haggis Hunter]

I have got to say that I am not happy with this, everytime you get a pocket query you have to go back to the PQ page and switch it back on. This I think is a backward step. I have them set up on the days I want them, and I leave them alone after that. Having to go back to switch it on all the time, is defeating the object of it being easy.

 

The PQ's that I already don't use, but keep for reference, are already switched off.

 

Also note that it is the last link of the list of links that you get in the email.

 

 

NOT HAPPY

[+DomHeknows]

since the 10th. Post your comments about it on the forum at http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...0entry1643349 (which i've just replied to).

Try and be positive about why you need the information and perhaps one day the powers that be may understand why cachers have different ways of using data that they don't/won't understand

[+Learned Gerbil]

And what do I click on the ones for the 12th and 13th that never arrived?

 

Ah! Found the solution - it is stupidly simple - the last digit is the day of the week - 0=Sunday to 6=Saturday.

 

Take one email, create shortcusts for the URLs for the days you want to run by changing the last digit as above. Then run a scheduling application to run all of those at least once a week then close the browser windows when they appear.

 

This could so easily result in a greater load on their servers!

 

I suspect it is all designed to weed out the PQs being run by people who no longer need them. Do this for a couple of weeks and you will have stripped out lots of redundant PQs. They could have done it much better though by actually making the intentions clear.

Edited August 14, 2005 by Learned Gerbil

[+kbootb]

And what do I click on the ones for the 12th and 13th that never arrived?

Go back to the PQ master page and switch them back on I'm afraid.

 

Also, the e-mail does say it's a temporary situation.

 

But thanks for the warning, as I need to make sure the entries on my PDA are up to date as I am preparing for a few days caching in a different area and won't have access to the net.

[+Learned Gerbil]

Sorry, added the automated solution whilst you were posting - I have nothing to turn on as the ticks were still there.

[+Sensei TSKC]

I believe this may be a way to 'cleanout' those PQ's that are being run and the owner no longer uses them.

 

Let's give a bit of credit to the site owners - maybe thet're trying to do some good housekeeping.

[+kbootb]

Sorry, added the automated solution whilst you were posting - I have nothing to turn on as the ticks were still there.

I was only guessing. Perhaps you have to turn them off and on again?

 

I can't remember what state mine were in as I turned them all off while I was on holiday to save my mailbox, I had only turned on the ones I needed for my next trip. So when I looked at my PQ page it was very bare of ticks. Couldn't be sure if they had been turned off by the system.

[+Skippy and Pingu]

This is not a good step. I know its temporary but we pay for the PQ service and we shouldn't have to click on it every week. What about when you go for your 2 week summer holiday? You'll have to try to find an internet cafe and log on to ensure your PQ run so they're done for when you get home.

 

Not impressed

[+minstrelcat]

This is not a good step. I know its temporary but we pay for the PQ service and we shouldn't have to click on it every week.

I presumed from the wording of the e-mail this would only have to be done once (for each PQ). Or is it going to go on for several weeks?

 

Lisa

Edited August 14, 2005 by minstrelcat

[+dino-irl]

This is the second time I've received that message in my PQ. The last was on 10th of this month (last Wednesday)