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Folks,

Thank you for indulging me by responding to this ancient post via my pings.

This was a post I put up back in early Feb. 2011 in which...well you know...the Freep ping list.

I have not forgotten. In fact, I have been working diligently on this task and I’ve got good and not so good, news.

I needed a system to put the name of the ping list, a contact for the ping list, some kind of description of the ping list. I most needed a way to sort the ping lists by some kind of category as rows and rows of ping lists mean nothing if you’re looking for something specific.\

TADA!

EXCEL!

Well I was oncit an Accountant and Accountants use Excel to write their letters, draw their pictures and, at times, do the math.

I used Excel to create a table, which converts, if you use the right codes, into an HTML table.

A link provided below for you to look but before...

I sure didn’t have much room to do much more than put a link to the ping list owner’s Freepmail, a very short description of the ping list as part of that Freepmail URL, a column for the ping list category and a column for the ping list owner’s Freep name.

I am able to add to my spreadsheet handily and re-sort with no bother so it is very amenable to upkeep. I hoped to add pictures and a longer description of the ping list as provided by ping list owner and still can do this. For now, well you gotta start somewhere.

On this thread many of you provided me with many other names of ping list owners. I am now just getting around to adding them all. I will get all ping list owners provided on this thread into the table and THEN I will fine tune it with pics and longer descriptions.

Finally, since this is on my Blog, it really needs to be moved to a fresh, clean Blog without all that sidebar stuff. For now I’ll keep it there and note that my sig line has the URL to access the ping list.

Just so you know, your comments/suggestions welcome and know that I intend to make this happen.

If anybody knows spreadsheets I’d be glad to email a copy of this one. It’s a real hoot and been a real learning experience.

I had to start somewhere.

And so I did. Make sure you scroll down to see my nifty table.

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/freerepublic-ping-list-compilation.html