+as77 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 I just received the following e-mail about a cache on my watchlist: From: <noreply@geocaching.com> To: ... Subject: [LOG] Watchlist: Maxtrax found Dowd Multicache (Traditional Cache) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:05:07 -0700 This is an automated message from Geocaching.com You are receiving this email because this listing is on your watch list. Visit the web site to change your watchlist settings. Location: New York, United States Maxtrax found Dowd Multicache (Traditional Cache) at 8/16/2002 Log Date: 8/16/2002 Challenging, but a lot of fun. Visit this log entry at the below address: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...f5-7acf4eb718b8 Visit GC6A52 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ca-3d5095420986 Profile for Maxtrax: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=11...98-2579cf54a698 Search for caches from this location: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.asp...8.7271833333333 Now it's great that Maxtrax found this cache in August 2002 but it's 2004 now and more than 40 logs have been added to the cache page since this log. Link to comment
+The Jester Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Could it be that he was just very late in logging? I added some logs that I had forgotten about 11-12 months late once - and I entered the date I found it, not the date I logged it. Or it took a trip to Pluto prior to delivery. Link to comment
+as77 Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Well, I posted a DNF to this cache on August 15 this year and started to watch it then. This is the first log I received, and it's from two years before my DNF. Doesn't help a lot... When you logged your find 11-12 months late, did the log show up at the top of the list on the cache page or was it inserted in the middle according to the date you entered? Link to comment
Keystone Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Retro-logging happens all the time. People caching as part of a team decide to get separate accounts. Couples break up, but continue geocaching separately. Kids grow up and say "Mom, can't I have my very own account now?" And so on. I don't think that the website randomly generates notices for two year old logs. Late logs show up in proper chronological order on the cache page. Link to comment
+GeoTeam Maggi Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Did you try to email the cacher to see if the log date was accurate? Some people have trouble with thier keebored. Link to comment
+Divine Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Did you try to email the cacher to see if the log date was accurate? Some people have trouble with thier keebored. That's true, but you have to specifically choose '2002' from the dropdown menu, because the default there is 2004 at the moment. That doesn't, of course, mean they still couldn't goof it themselves. Emailing and asking them is an option, if you can't sleep any more. Link to comment
+fly46 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Yeah, what Keystone said. It could be someone that went caching occationally and never got a username until now, too. I remember SBUX had done that at one point and then when she got an account she logged all the caches she had been along on. I just logged a cache a couple weeks ago that I had found on July 4. I had messed up my record keeping and couldn't figure out which cache one of them was and finally figured it out. Granted it wasn't two years, but just another example of waiting a while to log. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Log notifications happen when someone hits the submit button. They are not batched to be sent out later. If you received a watchlist notification you received it shortly after the person posted the log entry. Link to comment
+as77 Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 It could be someone that went caching occationally and never got a username until now, too. Certainly possible, but this guy has had his account since March 2002. He waited more than two years to log one of his finds? Seems unusual, but I accept that this is the most likely explanation. The notification almost made me think that the cache has been found after all, so I could go for it again. It's a good thing I noticed the date. Still my DNF is the last log. Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 It could be someone that went caching occationally and never got a username until now, too. Certainly possible, but this guy has had his account since March 2002. He waited more than two years to log one of his finds? Seems unusual, but I accept that this is the most likely explanation. The notification almost made me think that the cache has been found after all, so I could go for it again. It's a good thing I noticed the date. Still my DNF is the last log. I did that for a while and never went back to log those finds. It wouldn't really matter though because most of the caches I found I found in 01 and they're archived now. Link to comment
+Kilted Cacher Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Also, I hate to be the one to say it, the person logging the find might just be logging it for a find just for the number, because if the cache is missing, who can verify if he actually logged it or not. Check his profile and see what other 'activity' he has done in the last 2 years, specifically archived caches. Link to comment
+as77 Posted October 13, 2004 Author Share Posted October 13, 2004 Well, he has 18 finds in total, since March 2002, so I don't think he's a "numbers guy" Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 So, AS77, Have you sent an e-mail yet? Link to comment
+Kilted Cacher Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Your probably right, as77. It looks like he just started logging caches again after a six month break and maybe he just hasn't been around to be able to log the cache. So now that he is 'back into it', he is just catching himself up. Link to comment
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