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How did I end up on so MANY *ping* lists? [VANITY]
July 12, 2002 | EggsAckley

Posted on 07/12/2002 7:23:25 AM PDT by EggsAckley

Every morning I turn on my computer and head for FreeRepublic. Until recently, I might find an email or two, and perhaps a comment that came in after I had turned of the computer for the night.

Now, when I see the MY COMMENTS highlighted, I am amazed to find a dozen or more new articles which have been sent to me via *ping* lists. I know of only two lists to which I requested to to be added, but now it seems I am on fifteen or twenty. And most of them are topics that are not really something I'm fired up over, it seems I just "happened" to have made some comment on some thread, and *voila`* I'm on a *ping* list.

I don't want anyone to think I'm whining, it's just that this is starting to look like SPAM to me. Today alone, I have to write to four more of these lists to request removal. It seems like I have to write these requests every day now.

Is this bugging anyone else, or am I the only curmdgeon in these here parts?



TOPICS: Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: pinglists
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To: EggsAckley
uh oh. do i have you on mine? ;)
61 posted on 07/12/2002 9:29:54 AM PDT by christine
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To: stainlessbanner
is this a hint? ;)
62 posted on 07/12/2002 9:31:36 AM PDT by christine
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To: Overtaxed
I gotch yer Curmudgeon list RIGHT here!! Come one, come all.....LOL!
63 posted on 07/12/2002 9:34:17 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: EggsAckley
Hey C! I like your idea too. See how productive and creative we can be!!

I have a particular talent for figuring out the least-effort-required solution to mitigate the worst aspect of an issue. That comes from my experience doing the work of two people in my IT job. I have to do triage when there are a lot of production problems, but I don't want to put in a patch that causes further problems, nor do I want to spend a lot of time on a solution whose benefits are not worth the effort expended.

64 posted on 07/12/2002 9:36:01 AM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: EggsAckley
How come I wasn't pinged on this?
65 posted on 07/12/2002 9:36:43 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
but I don't want to put in a patch that causes further problems, nor do I want to spend a lot of time on a solution whose benefits are not worth the effort expended.

My boy......that is downright unamercun! LOL!!

66 posted on 07/12/2002 9:37:48 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Constitution Day
I like the NC ping list, especially since MY name is first :D

MKM

PS. Oh, and ditto what PL said.....LOL (just kidding)

67 posted on 07/12/2002 9:38:19 AM PDT by mykdsmom
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To: christine11
is this a hint? ;)

notatall! I know you have a list, like many of us...I just though it was an interesting thread. What's more facinating is that this thread hasn't bombed out yet by everyone pinging the poster!

68 posted on 07/12/2002 9:41:15 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: EggsAckley
Nope Eggs it bugs me too, I've asked to be removed from 2 lists that I never asked to be on just today.

I would like to see some rules layed down for this also, Spam sucks!

MKM

69 posted on 07/12/2002 9:41:36 AM PDT by mykdsmom
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To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for the heads up to this thread. I read all the posts and all the ones who don't want on ping lists - WHEW! I only had one of those names on mine. Will remove it, and make a note of those who prefer not to be pinged.

Uh, do you want off mine? :)
70 posted on 07/12/2002 9:46:46 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Billie
Uh, do you want off mine? :)

No Way! I enjoy your threads - besides you're FR Finest!

71 posted on 07/12/2002 9:50:44 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: RedBloodedAmerican; COB1; EggsAckley
hahahaha @ your *ping*

......I was thinking the same thing.....

Arthur is a champion on this topic! :)

72 posted on 07/12/2002 9:54:30 AM PDT by SunnyUsa
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To: EggsAckley
My boy......that is downright unamercun! LOL!!

You're right, because my philosophy makes sense! If only airport screeners worked that way. Instead the 'patch' they put in (searching people for no reason whatsoever other than to show that they can), may LOOK like security, but the main effect is to irritate the innocent. Likewise, federalizing airport security is a sledgehammer-pounding-a-nail solution, when arming pilots and reinforcing cockpit doors would almost completely eliminate suicide crashings. It's all about access to the cockpit!

But that's just a tangential rant superimposed on a half-assed attempt to come up with an example of my work philosophy in action.

73 posted on 07/12/2002 9:54:57 AM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: dubyagee
You're welcome!

By the way, I know all about being distracted by two-year-olds.

My daughter (there's a picture on my profile page) just turned two and her favorite words now are "Why?", "Huh?" and "Maybe!"

74 posted on 07/12/2002 9:56:31 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: stainlessbanner
To get ON or OFF my Dixie Ping List just send me a Freepmail...
75 posted on 07/12/2002 9:57:04 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: Overtaxed; southernnorthcarolina; EggsAckley
How do you get on the "curmudgeon" list?

If there was one I would have to be on it.
If any of you ever see a book called "The Portable Curmudgeon" you have got to get it.
It's full of sarcastic, pointed quotes for many occasions.

76 posted on 07/12/2002 9:58:38 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
(except that with all the Edwards news, sometimes ignorance would be bliss)

Yeah, really!
Sometimes it seems like not a day passes without an article about ol' Ambulance Chaser.

77 posted on 07/12/2002 10:00:18 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: shuckmaster; stainlessbanner
Hey y'all - I like being on the Dixie list!
78 posted on 07/12/2002 10:02:48 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: dead
I don't know why I'm on eight or nine others.

Fine! ;-D

79 posted on 07/12/2002 10:03:55 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: shuckmaster
Keep me on fer sure, Shuck! We gotta know what's going on in the Southland!
80 posted on 07/12/2002 10:05:53 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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