Sorry, I'm a newbie here. How does one do this? Is this a Freerepublic feature? Or do you just keep the "ping list" manually?
Manually.
First, the next time you post an article about the Parker case.. announce that you are starting a ping list and tell them to let you know if they want on the list and to notify you by FReepmail. thats the Free Republic mail feature, you keep all the screen names of those that subscribe to the pinglist on a wordpad file on your hard drive (make sure you seperate the names with a simi-colon) then when you ping the list just copy and paste all the names on the list in the "To" field above the reply field when making a reply to the thread.
see little jeremiah's freeper page for an example of a ping list. He has all the names on the Homosexual agenda ping list there.
Do not ping anyone unless they request to be added to your ping list.
You can add my name to the list if you decide to start one.
You can also request your name to be added to other ping lists as well.
hope this helps.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1328605/posts
You should FReepmail (Born Conservative) he/she? runs the Public Schools ping list.