[alisasny]

Well some of us need the ping list. For example I am planning the NYC party next week and its a huge time saver. Everyone who showed interest in the party is on the list and not one has asked to be removed. I will close it down next week but the point is at least for me that it is helpful in organizing. IE: also helpful in organizing protests.

If the ping list shut down and I had to individually freepmail everyone frankly I would not do it. The time spent on that would just not be worth my effort.

[sit-rep]

I did not know this site catered to parties...I thought it was an awareness forum. That is, aware of Constitutional issues.

SR

[sweetliberty]

The ping lists serve a purpose, but I agree that they're used excessively. I have had to ask repeatedly to be removed from ping lists, but at the same time I use them myself in some cases. In coordinating events and also for focusing on state issues, they are valuable. Also, I use one to alert to major developments on or new threads for the voter fraud thread, but I do try to be responsible about it because I know how annoying they can be as well and I have on occasion missed posts directed to me because they were buried in a sea of pings. And there are a couple of ping lists I appreciate being on. I guess it is one of those things where you take the bad with the good, but everyone should be encouraged to use them sparingly.

[TheBattman]

The point is- don't add anyone to a ping list unless they SPECIFICALLY ASK TO BE ADDED.

Otherwise, un-requested pings are no better than SPAM.