DID I ASK TO BE ON YOUR PING LIST?

vanity | December 20, 2002 | southernnorthcarolina

[southernnorthcarolina]

Apologies for the vanity post. But I want to rant a bit.

In the past few months, ping lists have proliferated to the point of annoyance. And it is especially irksome to find oneself on a list without having requested inclusion.

There's a word for this: .

Ponder this question, Chester: Did I ask to be on your #%&@ing ping list? No? Well, then. Draw the logical conclusion. If I wish to be on your ping list, rest assured you'll be the first to know. But while you wait with bated breath for my entreaty to be a party to your wisdom, I'll thank you not to make the assumption that I consider your blog indispensable.

Personally, I'd like to see pinging stopped entirely, via the placing of a limit on the number of people a post may be directed to -- preferably one, but no more than five, in my opinion. But failing that, it should at least be the case that unsolicited spam has no place on Free Republic.

[T. P. Pole]

Re: Arthur McGowan

You must have FreeRepublic set to scan on PING in the title line. I always try to ping Arthur to these, but you always beat me to it...

[FBD]

Everyone, please put me on the "Bill Clinton finally goes away" ping list.
Thanks! ;-)

[StriperSniper]

[M Kehoe]

Merry Christmas to you and yours UG.

Good to hear from you.

5.56mm

[terilyn]

Well you can all ping me any old time you want to ;)

[Squantos]

ROTFLMAO !!!!

Stay Safe !!

[DeSoto]

"If only it was possible to "flip a switch," say, on the profile page, so that you couldn't be included in long lists of people in the TO: field. That would fix this so easily, if it is workable, and with no hurt feelings.

What a perfect solution to the problem. If there are more than X number of semi-colons in the "To:" line then the freeper can choose in the "My Preferences" section to disallow their inclusion in the "My comments" section. The code should be easy to write and would solve a lot of problems.

[Frohickey]

I've often thought that graphics on the My Comments page are a waste of bandwidth. We can see the graphics if we decide to look at the thread. Good thought, jmc.

Why not use Lynx, a text-only web browser instead? Or, you can try the older web browsers that allowed you to turn on images or not.

[Ben Bolt]

Frankly I do not recall having ever been pinged from you . If I may speak openly to you I've learned more and have had the honour of getting an education far beyond what the brick & mortar world affords .

Thank you for being here backhoe . I believe you serve far more than you know .

[ApesForEvolution]

Sorry 'bout that Poohbah. It's just flowed out...a lot easier than nose-blowing Dew!

[Sparta]

Don't worry, you're not on the Western Civilization Military History ping list.

(If anyone else wants on, please let me know.)

[ApesForEvolution]

Stuck Ping...F1: Help not working...

[ApesForEvolution]

"Don't worry, you're not on the Western Civilization Military History ping list"

Does that include everytime Mexico has gotten their butts handed to them?

[Jen]

Thank you for your 'ting', but I don't mind being 'ping'ed. ;-)

[ApesForEvolution]

Could you two get a room please? LOL!!

[ApesForEvolution]

You have mail...

[Sparta]

DO NOT TAKE ME OFF THE FOXHOLE PING LIST!!!!

[Sabertooth]

I love my pings, The make me feel wanted. The more of them I can't read, the better I feel.

Sometimes, though, I have a dream. I dream that my life is so wonderful and free that I could one day wake up and my biggest problem would be all of those ping lists I'm on.

[Jen]

I received your freepmail, and the information is very interesting. Thank you for sending it to me.

[Sparta]

Thanks for the heads up!!!