Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:
Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.
Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:
Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.
Sarah Palin’s List sometimes does the same thing, particularly when I preview. I’ve tried to stop previewing.
You can also separate your list into two parts. Try to post it in equal half’s.
God Bless and Keep You.
Since there’s a “Pennsylvania” sidebar, I usually don’t ping for every article. I try to keep it a relatively low-volume ping list.
If someone pings me to ping the list, I always do so, assuming the poster deems it important.
I then use use judgment to ping articles if I find them pertinent or of special interest.
I keep the ping list & generic message in a text file, to copy and paste as needed.
Suggestions are always welcome (complaints are referred to the third floor customer service desk, right next to gift-wrap).
fyi
Um... convert to Baptist?
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I used to ping a really large list. It did not re-ping two or three times by itself. I think there is something else wrong with the system now. Has anyone gotten an answer from JohnRob?
I only encountered that problem one time—can’t recall whether it was with the Lutheran or the Orthodox ping list (I do both).
My recollection is that everything had seemed to freeze so I hit post a second time and voila, a double ping.
Three of my lists are pretty big, so when I post, I always have my own ping page open. IF the post seems to freeze on the posting page, I hit refresh on my ping page as fast as I can, and if it is there, I immediately close the posting page. I usually catch it in time to stop the double posts, but every once in awhile, it beats me.
Poor SJackson’s list must be HUGE. His always post three or four times.
As Onyx mentioned cutting the list in half has worked most of the time for me with the Sowell list. Once in a while one half may still post twice.
I also have two windows open and when I post half the list I go to the other window and open the thread to see if it’s posted. If it has posted I’ll go back to the post thread and many times it hasn’t posted yet so I’ll terminate that post.
It’s a lot of messing around but it most always solves the double posts and it makes the pingee’s happier. :-)
Is it because of a large list of pingees that pings are double or triple? I’m on SJackson’s Middle East/Terrorism list and it’s always many duplicates; also NYer’s list and it’s often dupes.
And when I ping it’s almost always double or triple. It’s getting very tiresome. Is there a cure?
To limit the ping to one instance, do this:
1) Hit the ‘post’ button
2) Count off 15 seconds
3) Hit the ‘back’ button on your browser.
I have 521 names on the border/illegal immigration list, and this is working for me.
It’s a system glitch — the only fix is to split your list into smaller pieces and ping each section of it separately (but otherwise identically). Test to see how large the list has to be before the trouble starts, although I will say that, the Astronomy Picture of the Day list has only 99 names, and it *sometimes* doubles, but *usually* doesn’t.
I freepmailed the ping list advising them of the situation and asking them to confirm if they wanted to remain on the Catholic Ping List. I allotted 1 month before the conversion to allow infrequent posters and traveling freepers sufficient time to respond. Based on the responses, I built a new list. After one month, I switched over. After that, a few freepers freepmailed saying they were no longer receiving pings and their names were added to the new list.
The new list has also grown since then and I will go through this process again, sometime soon. Most importantly, It resolved the problem.