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I have no issue with the way caches are named like this.

And mr rapidly wild, I'm not against your cache names at all. (I was just having a bit of word play & fun in my post above).
You just happened to be the next cab in the rank so to speak that used this convention that annoys J.

As an aside, this naming convention used to be a problem for cachers with some old gps units. I changed the names of my ACT INVESTIGATE series to have those words at the end of the cache name. mtrax I think advised me when I published that series of caches, that on some older basic type gps units the title name of the cache was limited to 20 characters (or less in some), consequently, in their gps units, they had multiple caches with the same name. I even learnt in one unit, that if the first 20 characters were the same (as in ...GREAT SOUTHERN ROAD.... caches by a local cacher) that the gps unit removed all but one of the caches. Weird.

But that aside, you lay em, I'll find em.

meanwhile, where's the coffeeeeee...........

noikmeister wrote:So perhaps I should say it this way. Hi my name is Jeremy and the way you name your caches irritates me for no rational reason. Please don't take it personally. I am sure you are a lovely person and I'd be happy to discuss it with you in person over coffee. I'll shout.

Very well put, that made me laugh.

noikmeister wrote: So perhaps I should say it this way. Hi my name is Jeremy and the way you name your caches irritates me for no rational reason. Please don't take it personally. I am sure you are a lovely person and I'd be happy to discuss it with you in person over coffee. I'll shout.

Would that be an event cache?

I think it's Ms Rapidlywild not Mr...

mtbikeroz wrote:Rapidlywild’s Fore!gotten to Chalk up Bruce and Basil.

That makes 5.

And you forgot Mosaic

Yes, I am not male lol. Miss Rapidlywild

Caches have been renamed btw

For what it is worth, I am now back to using my old Garmin HCX, which has a name limit of 14 characters. Hence any similarly named caches come up Abcdefghi01, Abcdefghi02, etc, using GSAK. I suspect that if I used a Groundspeak download, it would overwrite each preceding similar name so that I may end up with one cache at the end. This is what happened when I used to use EasyGPS. (for a very short time!) I well remember loading in 15 such caches once and only finding one when I got there.

Of course I could always use the GC code but that does make it harder to identify each cache than using the name.

When we put out the Woodlands series (100 caches) we made sure that there was a reasonable uniqueness to the start of each name (Woodlands 01, etc.) for this reason.

So it is definitely easier for the likes of me if the start of each cache name is unique, but also not that hard to work around. Having another device like a Smartphone or SatNav helps a lot.

Today's list of ACT caches published has warmed my heart!

noikmeister wrote:

mtbikeroz wrote:Rapidlywild’s Fore!gotten to Chalk up Bruce and Basil.

That makes 5.

And you forgot Mosaic

And you missed Betchern0t, crazeecat, Wombat & Tankengine!

Have i missed any

mtbikeroz wrote:

noikmeister wrote:

mtbikeroz wrote:Rapidlywild’s Fore!gotten to Chalk up Bruce and Basil.

That makes 5.

And you forgot Mosaic

And you missed Betchern0t, crazeecat, Wombat & Tankengine!

Have i missed any

I'll grant you Betchern0t, but the other 2 are only occasional offenders.

Alansee wrote:For what it is worth, I am now back to using my old Garmin HCX, which has a name limit of 14 characters. Hence any similarly named caches come up Abcdefghi01, Abcdefghi02, etc, using GSAK. I suspect that if I used a Groundspeak download, it would overwrite each preceding similar name so that I may end up with one cache at the end. This is what happened when I used to use EasyGPS. (for a very short time!) I well remember loading in 15 such caches once and only finding one when I got there.

Of course I could always use the GC code but that does make it harder to identify each cache than using the name.

When we put out the Woodlands series (100 caches) we made sure that there was a reasonable uniqueness to the start of each name (Woodlands 01, etc.) for this reason.

So it is definitely easier for the likes of me if the start of each cache name is unique, but also not that hard to work around. Having another device like a Smartphone or SatNav helps a lot.

The GSAK feature that will help you is Smart Name. Under Tools --> Options --> General. You can tell it how many characters you have to work with and a few other things then you just let it make unique names for you.

noikmeister wrote:

mtbikeroz wrote:

noikmeister wrote:

mtbikeroz wrote:Rapidlywild’s Fore!gotten to Chalk up Bruce and Basil.

That makes 5.

And you forgot Mosaic

And you missed Betchern0t, crazeecat, Wombat & Tankengine!

Have i missed any

I'll grant you Betchern0t, but the other 2 are only occasional offenders.

Offenders? You are a joke

Agent Basil wrote:
Offenders? You are a joke

It's like winding up an automatic clock.

mtbikeroz wrote:

noikmeister wrote:

mtbikeroz wrote:Rapidlywild’s Fore!gotten to Chalk up Bruce and Basil.

That makes 5.

And you forgot Mosaic

And you missed Betchern0t, crazeecat, Wombat & Tankengine!

Have i missed any

Crazeecat isn't mentioned in the name... ..and its vombatus, not wombat god dammit...