+The Northumbrian Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 On sunday march the 3rd. I re-hid Hot Dog Man in North Yorkshire at RISER, it was found on the same day by The shooteroos, I like to follow travel bugs that I have found and re-hid as most of you like to do the same, I was only notified this morning that he had been found on 3rd March My question is, can email notifications get held-up in the post , the same as surface mail? or there other problems that arise with automated notificacions? Happy Easter Caching. Nige Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 I've had delays of 2-3 days before but never that long. Perhaps they have only just logged the move? Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources Quote Link to comment
LazyLeopard Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 There do seem to be log-jams in the email notification system at times (I've noticed updates on the website a few days before the e-mail arrived before now), and there's also the chance the log was back-dated. Could also have been a combination of both... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 Your mail client should somewhere have an option to view the message headers. If you select that, among the many things you'll see will be a number of "received" headers. Each mail server that the message passes through will put a new received header in with a time stamp which you can use to figure out where the delays are. My guess would be that it is at the geocaching.com end, there have been signs over the last few days that they are suffering some performance issues. The answer to your question about can e-mail get held up is "yes". It's quite rare nowadays, but it does happen. quote:Originally posted by The Northumbrian: On sunday march the 3rd. I re-hid Hot Dog Man in North Yorkshire at RISER, it was found on the same day by The shooteroos, I like to follow travel bugs that I have found and re-hid as most of you like to do the same, I was only notified this morning that he had been found on 3rd March My question is, can email notifications get held-up in the post , the same as surface mail? or there other problems that arise with automated notificacions? Happy Easter Caching. Nige ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+The Northumbrian Posted March 28, 2002 Author Share Posted March 28, 2002 Thank you Jeremyp,Lazy leopard and chris. as this was not the first time that it had happened , I thought I might as well seek advice on the subject, I am Now a little wiser Thanks again ,Nige Quote Link to comment
The Shooteroos Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Forget all the technical stuff.The simple answer is our computers been up the spout for about 3 weeks.It's been like losing a hand. Quote Link to comment
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