| QUOTE (eremmel65 @ September 05, 2013 05:23 am) |
| It gives me less work than having many small PQs. |
Back in the olden days 
, the largest number of geocaches you could get emailed to you was 500 per PQ (i.e 2500 per day). So with regularly scheduled emails every day that was 17500 per week. There were no other legal ways to populate a database or to update the data you had. Since archived caches were never included in PQs you were left with no decent tools to get those out of your database or to get them flagged right. Thus this thread (and a gazillion like it both here and in the groundspeak forums).It is today possible to get double that number via PQs, but not by email. And we now have the API which did not exist when this thread was started. So much has changed. We also no longer have to go barefoot in the snow, uphill to every cache and we have GPSrs that actually carry the description and some logs. All geocachers were wonderful, smart, and beautiful; caches were all perfectly camouflaged and maintained; ammo cans were plentiful, the smallest cache was a bison tube, and it never rained when you wanted to go geocaching. There were only a few thousand caches total that you needed to find so Groundspeak had a special feature to NOT let you have all the data at once; that's why the geocaching.com site became unusable on weekends for anyone that defied this. Off-line databases were all the rage in the GSAK-underground and there was a special honor in somehow maintaining one so absurdly large that EVERYONE would agree that no one EVER needs that many caches. Ah, the good old days.... what fun we had.
But if you posted regularly in these forums, you would simply not admit that you went out and ended up looking for a geocache that had been archived. You just did not do that. Back then we had to take serious measures to prevent that. Today you just select what you want to look for and do a refresh on those.
