Abuse Of Ping List

Free Republic Threads | January 15, 2002 | Myself

[cva66snipe]

It seems there is a sudden upswing in ping list. Please don't take me wrong I'm on a few of them and I enjoy them. However when a person starts recieving whole list pings to a same thread 4 times for that same thread then I consider that to be abuse.

Most of us in here if we want off a ping list do so by posting the request in the thread and the issue is then settled. The person may have many reasons for doing so like getting pings to topics they do not want to pinged to.

In the last couple of days it seems there has been someone who refuses to take a hint even after multiple request on threads asking for name removal from the ping list. Is the person not seeing them? No I really don't think so as this person when someone request to be put on the list replies on the thread they are added.

The ping list should be a one time per thread event. If not such as the case now three threads equals 12 pings to all on the list. I think it's clear to see the problem it creates. Self search becomes bogged down.

I have tried to resolve this issue without resorting to this post. I can not just ignore 12 plus pings a day to just three different threads all from one freeper doing the runaway pings. To all others and you know who you are this is in no way directed at you or your list in any way.

[Happygal]

I was saving the best till last.

JJ...yer mixing yer threads up. The worst chat up lines one is thataway! *L* ----------------->

[jjbrouwer]

I'm like this on nearly all the threads though!!!

[farmfriend]

Glad you posted the Bump List site. I always enjoy your pings though. Keep it up.

[Mo1]

You won't be surprised to hear that I was one of those annoying kids who used to play that game where you knock on all the doors in the street and run off!

And you won't be surprised I was also ... Be Afraid .. Very Afraid .. fofl

[rockfish59]

if they start a 'pong' list, then i'm outta here!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK!!

[nunya bidness]

Please add me to davidosborne's ping list. Thanks.

[Texaggie79]

Please add me to TBLSHOW's ping list..............

[xm177e2]

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Please ignore this post.

[BraveMan]

I landed on jjbrouwer's ping list. I have arrived . . .

ping:
[from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob. originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse]

1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another (the UNIX command `ping(8)' can be used to do this manually). Occasionally used as a phone greeting. See {ACK}, also {ENQ}.

2. vt. To verify the presence of.

3. vt. To get the attention of.

4. vt. To send a message to all members of a {mailing list} requesting an {ACK} (in order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). "we haven't heard much of anything from geoff, but he did respond with an ack both times i pinged jargon-friends."

5. n. A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation; "ping!" (I'm happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form "pingfulness", which is used to describe people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language, "pingfulness" can also be used as an exclamation, in which case it's a much stronger exclamation than just "ping"!). Oppose {blargh}.

[jjbrouwer]

BraveMan: I don't really have a ping list as such. I usually like to have a bit of an eclectic mix though.

I mean wouldn't a church tea party be more fun if Ozzy Osbourne and Dame Edna turned up and mingled with the grannies?

Here, let me try again...

[HairOfTheDog]

Naw... we know who the "Lord of the Pings" is, and I like being on that list :)

[nunya bidness]

If I'm on your ping list please remove me. Thanks.

If I'm not please add me and then remove me. Thanks.

[xm177e2]

I don't actually ping anyone with that list, I just flash it around for show. Whenever people whip out their lists, I have to prove I've got the biggest, longest... you get the idea.

[MadameAxe]

Hmmph!
:-b

[nunya bidness]

If you flash your ping list please add me to your ping list. Thanks.

If you ping me to your ping list please remove me from your ping list. Thanks.

[MinuteGal]

# 209 - Just couldn't help laughing out loud at this reply and your punch line. You're a devil!

Leni

[FITZ]

I don't mind being pinged.

[Hildy]

Hey, why aren't I on your PING list. I'm insulted!

[patriciaruth]

What would you like to be pinged for? The main ping I do is for care packages and letters for the soldiers overseas. However, I have eclectic reading tastes and can ping you for some other subject if you want.