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8769 2018-12-31 22:15 OC Team - OC Team comment

Dear OCNA contributor:

Thank-you for contributing to the Opencaching North America cache base by hiding and submitting cache listings to OCNA. Currently you have one or more caches that have been submitted to OCNA, but were not accepted (published) for reasons that would have been stated in a cache note from an OCNA Admin team member.

All cache submissions to OCNA are reviewed by a team of volunteer admins to look for any potential issues with the cache placement - http://wiki.opencaching.us/index.php/Ca ... Guidelines. If there are questions or concerns with a cache submission, the admin member will communicate those to the cache owner, and usually will add 'DRAFT' to the cache name. This gives the cache owner the opportunity to make changes to the cache and/or to provide additional information. Sometimes, the cache owner takes no further action and the unpublished listing is essentially 'abandoned'. However, those abandoned listings remain in the list of Pending Caches (a list of caches awaiting review, only visible to OCNA admins) - they are only removed from the list of pending caches when they are accepted/published, or if they are blocked by OCNA admin. When a cache is blocked, it is still visible to the cache owner, and it can be unblocked by an admin member upon request, but the listing cannot be altered while it is blocked.

As part of a housekeeping exercise, we plan to block any caches that have been sitting in the "Pending Caches" list for more than two months. If you are still interested in having your geocache published on OCNA, please look at the cache listing to review any of the comments posted by OCNA admins. If you are able to make the requested changes, please do so and then send us an email at octeam@opencaching.us letting us know what changes were made. If it has been many months since the cache was first submitted, we would also request that you first check the geocache to ensure it is still in place and in good condition. Alternatively, if you are no longer interested in having the geocache listed with OCNA, then no action is required - the cache will remain in your list of blocked caches but that is only visible to you and to OCNA admins.

Please let us know within the next 10 days if you hope to fix or reuse the cache listing. Thanks and happy caching,

The OCNA volunteer admin team