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Thanks. -4my

Yes.

Does it hurt badly?

maybekindasortof

Just ask to be removed.

It ain't no big thang.

You've been put on my 'You don't know you are on my ping list' Ping List...

If you want on or off my ping list, forget it, because you don't know about it...

Oops. We are supposed to ask first? :') Sorry, Texans.

As in permanently added to a ping list, or simply pinged by a Freeper acquaintance who thought you would be interested in a certain post, and also pinged a regular ping list he/she maintains at the same time?

The latter happens relatively often, and it confuses people into thinking they've actually been added to a ping list when it's really just a one-time thing. The former, however, ought not happen at all, unless you've specifically requested to be added.

(I will take this opportunity to add my usual complaint that ping lists would be largely unnecessary if we could have bump lists back.)

Why was I pinged to this particular thread?

It happens. Someone sees that you are interested (if only momentarily) in something that they really care about. They put together a ping list.

They're not being mean, they like you.

Just FReepmail them and politely ask them to take you off the list. Works every time.

PING!

you could try the POLITICALLY INCORRECT method of simply replying to the ping-list sender yourself and simply politely asking to be removed instead of complaining to the PC Police first - ya think?

You have been indoctrinated fully by the left-wing to rely on mama-gubmint instead of doing things yourself.

I AM sorry for you.

Ping!

I thought you might want to check out this thread.

Yes, but in my experience people who put you on ping lists without asking get mad and take you off when you don't respond.

I've never spent a lot of time thinking about it.

You?

Yes, but it is hardly without my knowledge. Every time I log in I see them, so I know they are there. I find it iritating. Problem is, I even feel somewhat guilty in telling those folks to take me off the list.

Ping lists, without personal acquiescence, are an abomination.

All I do is request to be removed by freepmail.

Hey now! I was just curious to see if this was happening to anyone else. I DO freepmail back the people and ask to be off of the list. I put up the vanity because I am being put on regular ping list (ie, ping list that are often used, like mhking's lists), not one-time lists.

See also:

DID I ASK TO BE ON YOUR PING LIST?
vanity | December 20, 2002 | southernnorthcarolina

Posted on 12/20/2002 3:57 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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Calling Arthur McGowan......

I had that problem, but then I tried new improved "Ping Away" spray ...

Every time I post, the thread dies.

Please, please come true again.