Being on some ping list vs. being courteously pinged by someone to a thread that might be of interest to you is not one and the same, no?
That ping to this topic is a mystery to me, it looked like a long ping list to me, and in the past I have had to ask that poster to stop pinging me.
And little did I know that asking not to be put on a ping list would become such an issue, maybe that climate is why I don’t come to these threads.