DID I ASK TO BE ON YOUR PING LIST?

vanity | December 20, 2002 | southernnorthcarolina

[southernnorthcarolina]

Apologies for the vanity post. But I want to rant a bit.

In the past few months, ping lists have proliferated to the point of annoyance. And it is especially irksome to find oneself on a list without having requested inclusion.

There's a word for this: .

Ponder this question, Chester: Did I ask to be on your #%&@ing ping list? No? Well, then. Draw the logical conclusion. If I wish to be on your ping list, rest assured you'll be the first to know. But while you wait with bated breath for my entreaty to be a party to your wisdom, I'll thank you not to make the assumption that I consider your blog indispensable.

Personally, I'd like to see pinging stopped entirely, via the placing of a limit on the number of people a post may be directed to -- preferably one, but no more than five, in my opinion. But failing that, it should at least be the case that unsolicited spam has no place on Free Republic.

[Jen]

OK!! hahahaha

Thanks for the chuckle!

[MissAmericanPie]

I like being pinged to threads that I would most likely miss. But if it bothers you ask to be removed. Is it really that big a deal?

[Sabertooth]

Ping lists are one thing that irritates, the second is pings with graphics. I am tired of going into self search and having to wait for graphics to load...it's a pain in the ass.

Get high-speed access.

[Rummyfan]

Thanks - that was CLASSIC! If you don't want be pinged, ask to be removed from the PING list!

[M Kehoe]

I see you've got thread duty on ATRW. If you need any help I'm just a ping away (most of the time).

5.56mm

[ApesForEvolution]

No problem. God bless AJ.

[ApesForEvolution]

"Get high-speed access."

High speed rules!

[mhking]

I don't place people on either of my lists unsolicited. (I hate spam with a passion, and I respect and anticipate that others feel the same way) Not only that, but if anyone wishes to be either added or removed from my lists, they have but to ask. The only thing I ask is that you let me know via FREEPmail; that ensures that the message doesn't sail out of the bottom of the queue on me.

[BlackRazor]

Man, you would have hated my Poll Ping List during the three months preceding elections, then! :) Close to a hundred people were on it, and every single one of them asked on.

[Kevin Curry]

It doesn't bother me. I certainly isn't on my top ten annoyance or concern list. Or even on my top 500.

Whining about being placed on a ping list without express permission strikes me as being something that a liberal would do. It's victimology thing.

If I'm pinged and the thread heading doesn't interest me, I just ignore it.

[Ben Bolt]

Looking @ the screen name you have I'd never use my credit card . Night sweetie *-)

[BlackRazor]

I assume you don't want to be on the Foxhole ping list.

Please remove me as well. Not sure how I got on it. Thanks.

[fatima]

AntiJen,I love the new thread and I am happy to be on your ping list as you know because of my dad,your dad is in my prayers and I am sorry to hear this.

[ApesForEvolution]

Too-shay! Night.

[Jen]

Done. Thanks for letting me know.

[Sabertooth]

If you don't want be pinged, ask to be removed from the PING list!

But that's so hard... I'll never remember all the steps.

[LasVegasMac]

RE your post #22 - priceless!

Happy Holidays, SamAdams!

LVM

[Sparta]

Oh yeah!!! We can talk Mexico, but I've only linked to the Battle of the Alamo (although I'm considering other Mexico battles.)

[ASA Vet]

That was the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in a long time.
Thank you for "ponging"

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

I used to rant about the same spam, to no avail. I even asked to have it sent to the Maestro of FR, only to have my thread or reply deleted.