[Az-Geocaching] so much for trying to preserve a cache

[Richard Daines]

You guys have been doing this a bit longer than me but I have come to
appreciate maintaining my own database in GSAK.  Barring a hard drive
failure I can store a lot a data for a long time.  Run those PQs and save
the data.

On 9/28/07, AZcachemeister <azcachemeister at getnet.com> wrote:
>
> We could have seen this coming back when Petite Elite attempted to adopt
> All Aboard Gone up in Prescott. I can't remember if the original owner was
> out of contact, but the logic was that the container was missing, so the
> cache could only be un-archived to the original owner, and not an adoptee.
> I read something in the forums that hinted that archived caches will be
> taken off the maps soon, so the only way you would be able to 'find' them
> would be by knowing the waypoint ID, or perhaps by looking at someones found
> list.
> Apparently 'cache permanence' is falling by the wayside, so stock up on
> 'Gladware' and just archive the cache and 'hide' a new one when the
> container disintegrates.
>
> Richard Daines wrote:
>
>  There have been several conversations on the forum about just this topic
> and as predicted, this is the response.  GC seems to lean to archiving
> rather that adoption if the original owner doesn't get involved.  There is a
> similar cache here in Missouri that appears to have been quietly adopted but
> is Disabled none the less.  Unless the original owner speaks up, I bet this
> one will be Disabled too regardless of it condition.  I guess I can see the
> point that a cache needs an owner, a point of contact.  Having to apply for
> a new cache at the location
> seems extreme but this is how GC tries to have control.
>
>
> On 9/28/07, Jason Poulter <jason at snaptek.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thats a bunch of crap....
> >
> > I think I will get around to making a section on the azgeocaching site
> > were we can list our own caches and thus keep caches like this alive and
> > all nazi tactics at gc can be circumnavigated....
> >
> > jason
> > snaptek
> >
> > Gale wrote:
> > > I feel quite badly about this. I tried to preserve an old cache, and
> > > this is what happens. Link here.
> > > <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=52232ff3-f2f0-463f-8829-47d51b995b9c
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
> > >
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> > >   On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
> > > "Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
> > >   "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
> > >
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> > >
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