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DID I ASK TO BE ON YOUR PING LIST?
vanity
| December 20, 2002
| southernnorthcarolina
Posted on 12/20/2002 3:57:53 PM PST by 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.
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To: Sparta
Opt me in! Wow, I've opted into 2 pinglists in one night! That makes two opt-ins total!
To: MtHLancerFan
Why should the pingee be responsible for being taken off of lists they don't want to be on in the first place? I'd say the pinger should initiate the contact rather than just putting my name on the list and when I ask in the open forum to be removed, they get all pissy about it. I'm pinging you here just to annoy you.
Sheesh, been here all of 3 weeks and complaining about the place already ;)
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posted on
12/20/2002 8:48:14 PM PST
by
katnip
To: southernnorthcarolina
It's the old "opt-in vs. opt-out" war that has raged recursively online for years.
243
posted on
12/20/2002 8:49:40 PM PST
by
Illbay
To: southernnorthcarolina
I don't have any problem with the ping lists. I'm on the Black ping and the Israel ping, and I appreciate getting that mail. If someone picks up on some view that I've expressed and pings me for an article that discusses that viewpoint, I don't mind. I can't respond to all the pings or even open all the articles, but it's not like my mailbox is flooded.
244
posted on
12/20/2002 8:49:48 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: Dog
Coming up, amigo
To: Dog; xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ladyinred; ...
Ping..
To: alisasny
He doesn't like to wait five minutes for the page to load with the graphics and all, if on a dial up line. I have DSL here, so I can hang, but there needs to be a better solution to this. People should check the info for their own state once in a while. And no more cheese.
To: JohnHuang2
LOL, I saw this. JH2, have I ever asked to be on your ping list? hehehehehe
To: Bella_Bru
"And now we will have the annual airing of grievances.". Or...
The Who's Who list of "Who pissed on my parade?"
LVM
To: Ms. AntiFeminazi
ROFLOL!
To: JohnHuang2
For the record .. I love your pings John
251
posted on
12/20/2002 9:09:26 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: JohnHuang2
I love being on your ping list. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and loved and needed and appreciated, and honored and ......PINGED.
To: baseballmom
hehehehe
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the ping, King. Please keep me ON your list.
254
posted on
12/20/2002 9:13:11 PM PST
by
Jen
To: Mo1
Why, thanks ;^)
Comment #256 Removed by Moderator
To: AntiJen
Quite welcome
To: AntiJen
Thoughts and prayers are with you.
That is how I lost my Dad, God Bless him.
LVM
To: mhking; madfly; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Don't know if you guys are on this thread yet but it is too good to miss. Hold my beer will get fifty million responses.
To: terilyn
Ping!
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