I’ve been staying out of this thread for various reasons, but I do need to say that these particular logs will have no effect on whether a cache is archived for being disabled for an extended period of time. We use a standard procedure for this, as follows:
1. Checks are performed monthly, around the first of the month.
2. If a cache has been disabled for more than 3 months without any notes from the owner on the cache page, it will receive a standard “Fix it or lose it” warning letter. (This time frame was specified by Groundspeak.) The only exception is if the original disable note included a longer time frame for a specific purpose, such as “I am disabling this until April 15 to allow the snow to melt.” or “The park is closed until June 1, so the cache is disabled until then.”
3. If the cache owner posts a note on the cache after the warning indicating they need more time, they get it.
4. If the cache owner sends an email to me telling me they need more time, they get it, but I tell them to post a note so that they don’t get flagged again the following month.
5. If nothing happens after a month, the cache gets archived. If the owner later asks to have the cache reinstated, we will do that if it still meets the guidelines (meaning no one else has already put another cache there, which has happened a few times.)
So, as you can see, posting a Needs Archived on a disabled cache is basically a waste of time, as it is already being watched. Simultaneously posting 100 SBAs on disabled caches (resulting in 200 emails hitting my mailbox, mixed in with all the legitimate emails and notifications) is likely to convert me from my normal “nice, pleasant, helpful” mode to my “not so nice, snarky” mode. So please don’t do this! Like Brian said, we really want you to use the Needs Archived and Needs Maintenance logs when they are merited, but they are not merited for caches which are already disabled.
