+Dr.MORO Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Domo!!! (Howdy in Japanese Is it just me? This morning here in Cambridge, MA, I have not received a single email message from "noreply@geocaching.com" which includes but not limited to all the geocaches notifications, Watchlist-ed geocaches & Travelbugs, Bookmarks notifications, etc. It seems I am not getting any email messages since last email received at 10:29 pm EDT yesterday Friday October 16th. Hampsters on break? I did however receive my Pocket Query notification from "noreply@geocaching.com" at 5:09 am EDT this morning Saturday October 17th, but that the only email message I got. To confess, I have ALL my Found (and DNF) geocaches on my Watchlist, and quick a few Travelbugs as well as several Bookmark lists with notifications activated. I usually get a ton of email from "noreply@geocaching.com" all the time 24/7/366. But somehow most nothing received this nearly 12 hours. What is going on? Geocaching.com System Status http://status.geocaching.com/ seems to show everything is working and online, and Hampsters not slacking off. Really weird... Anyone else having this issue? Quote Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) Hmmmm.... Are the Hampsters listening??? Oddly, only after 25 minute I posted my massage here, I just started to receive emails from 'noreply@geocaching.com' once again, starting from a message timestamped 9:00 am EDT today Saturday October 17th. At least, Instant Notification, and Watchlist message has arrived so far. I'll keep checking, and post here for updates. Edited October 17, 2020 by Dr.MORO Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 When I worked in Japan, I used to blame such things on 'softo bakemono'. Quote Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, ecanderson said: When I worked in Japan, I used to blame such things on 'softo bakemono'. So, this time I guess the fluffy Hampsters scared off the 'softo bakemono' ソフト・バケモノ aka fluffy monstahs. Quote Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dr.MORO said: Hmmmm.... Are the Hampsters listening??? Oddly, only after 25 minute I posted my massage here, I just started to receive emails from 'noreply@geocaching.com' once again, starting from a message timestamped 9:00 am EDT today Saturday October 17th. At least, Instant Notification, and Watchlist message has arrived so far. I'll keep checking, and post here for updates. Now I wonder where have all the messages I have missed receiving while sleeping have gone... Darn 'softo bakemono' ate them all??? And would I ever receive them, although delayed? Edited October 17, 2020 by Dr.MORO Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Dr.MORO said: So, this time I guess the fluffy Hampsters scared off the 'softo bakemono' ソフト・バケモノ aka fluffy monstahs. Evidently that's what happened. Those hamsters can be tough. However, I wouldn't use Romanji for bakemono. ソフト・化物 is how I used to spell it, using it especially to encompass things that seemed to change in the software for no particular reason since 化 implies some sort of change. There's lots of cool words for stuff like this in Japanese, and the phenomenon of a piece of software mysteriously changing its behavior is pretty universal! gc.com certainly has their share of such issues. Are you sure that messages are actually missing, or did you get a small blitz of them just as things freed up? Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 11 minutes ago, ecanderson said: the phenomenon of a piece of software mysteriously changing its behavior is pretty universal! "Bit decay" Quote Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, ecanderson said: Evidently that's what happened. Those hamsters can be tough. However, I wouldn't use Romanji for bakemono. ソフト・化物 is how I used to spell it, using it especially to encompass things that seemed to change in the software for no particular reason since 化 implies some sort of change. There's lots of cool words for stuff like this in Japanese, and the phenomenon of a piece of software mysteriously changing its behavior is pretty universal! gc.com certainly has their share of such issues. Are you sure that messages are actually missing, or did you get a small blitz of them just as things freed up? Not a single message from geocaching for nearly 12 hours? I very much doubt that. I just wonder if it's only me and my mail address, or if anyone else have the same missing email issue from geocaching.com. During this period, I DID receive email from other senders, just none from geocaching.com. And yes, softwares are mysterious being 'soft'. Hardware are 'hard', yet they too also change & glitch, so being 'soft' should make them even more have changes & glitches. Who knows, maybe those Hampsters like eating ソフト・化物 AND バグ bugs (insects) existing and appearing in the systems, hard and soft. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 We have sometimes seen a particular ISP causing issues with mail from gc.com servers. A while back, one particular German ISP was bouncing or slowing down a lot of gc.com mail, probably due to some reputation issue. Are you currently in the US or Japan? Who is your ISP? Quote Link to comment
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