[Robert_Paulson2]

we need an opt IN program... not the OPT OUT "if you don't want on my ping list, please let me know... " routine of late.

FURTHERMORE, the concept of subscripted thematic selection on the left of the screen WAS supposed to be a way for us to CHOOSE article browsing lists that fit our selected key words...

In other words, I am interested in Israel's current events, so I subscribe to that... I am NOT interested in MOST religious issues, that are specific to the CATHOLIC situation at this time. Hence I do NOT subscribe to religion, though I do go there at times to see what is going on.

The ping lists need to go away.
There are folks who ping me by email when they got something hot, they KNOW I want to see... ie... whenever REAL breaking news is posted from venezuela or brazil comes up, THEY let me know.

I get a little fed up with seeing "new posts to you" and finding ten or fifteen "pingers" trying to get me to visit their thread.

I ALWAYS look for John Huang's my2cents. John is responsible in his pinging. perhaps a ping monitor would be more useful than a sidebar moderator. Not all pingers are created equal.

IE, Although I LOVE the military of america, I am not interested so much in the details of the battle of the little big horn... and don't appreciate the pings for that list.

Perhaps we need to expand the number of topics listed in the top menu, it might be better than twenty or thirty pings each day for areas that I have no interest in.

SO, count me as a third on this, if not a late "second" on this as a motion to commit to a floor vote. Ping lists need to go away or have assigned monitors who use them responsibly and update them often.

[Jen]

Removed.

[ambrose]

bump

[VOYAGER]

I get a little fed up with seeing "new posts to you" and finding ten or fifteen "pingers" trying to get me to visit their thread.

Good, Good and how about a "LOT" fed up?

[EBUCK]

we need an opt IN program...

There already is. Although I am on a lot of ping lists I still check the lists located here...as a matter of fact, until the appearant rise of the master-pingers, this was how I tracked down all info on listed/specific subjects.

Bump Lists

Works just fine for me. And if you don't want to be on someones list just request that you are taken off. Better to be solicited with info that may prove usefull, IMO, than to not receive any at all.

EBUCK