"Warren" wrote in message
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snakefiddler wrote...
would have been happy to e-mail him, except that i have been having
trouble
sending stuff with the new e-mail account i set up (you know, to avoid
accidentally posting e-mails to roff?)
thanks, for the tip, though :-)

Why don't you invest in a FREE account such as yahoo or hotmail?

first i switched to another account becasue of that snafu with my e-mail,
(yeah, tim, the one where i was soliciting funds :-} ), then i had trouble
sending e-mail through it, so i did switch to a yahoo account - but no
longer had walt's e-mail addy.


You
can have a free email account (yahoo has 100MB of storage for free) and
never have to worry about sending emails to ROFF.

anyway, i dare say, i'd rather see one roffian ping another with some
happy,
kindly, helpful, friendly, *whatever*, content than to see this vile
****
that has been going around here lately. some folks need to get out and
fish
more. that said, i expect to be in the water in about fifteen minutes.

While that may be true, such useless pings do nothing more than clutter
up ROFF with things that other people really don't give a **** about. I
am not trying to be mean or anything so don't take this the wrong way,

( no danger in that- i feel ya)


but you are merely wasting bandwidth and degrading the usefulness of
pings. Before too long, instead of "the boy who cried wolf," we will
have "the snake that cried ping." g

snake

(btb- i thought i pinged wally......)

Yeah, you did. Others often read these pings so that they can assist
should it become necessary. Example, I pinged Tom Brown a couple of
weeks ago because I didn't have his current email address and wanted to
get ahold of him. He eventually responded to the thread which means he
got the ping and I did receive an email from Tom so that I could reach
him via email. Had he never responded and/or not been posting to ROFF
anymore, someone else may have noticed and given me his email address so
that I could contact Tom directly.


You basically got caught up in the
ol' "newbie thinks pings are cool

damn warren, get out of my head- that's just scary!! BSEG
i was with ya up to there. as a matter of fact, i pinged wally with some
hesitation, figuring i would probably hear about. i just wanted him to know
i was sending a freind of mine out his way, particularly since i have
requested a favor of this fella while he is there.



because they are something new and
then proceeds to **** them up" routine and others are merely trying to
teach you their proper uses, etc.

Shall I start up a new thread titled "Ping - Snakefiddler" so that I can
further explain pings? ;-)


no- you can just answer the last e-mail i sent you- smart ass ;-))


Yeah, I could have emailed this to you but
then others who are newbies who are likely to repeat the mistake
wouldn't learn from this. My guess is that Tim was trying to teach you
something (he wasn't trying to be a dick IMO)

i didn't feel like he was trying to be a dick, i just responded in the same
(as i interpreted it) tongue in cheek form in which he responded to my
post - it wasn't meant to be confrontational. *ya'll must have missed my
smilie*.


and hoping that you would
pick up on what he *wasn't* saying because so far nobody has told you
that your pings are getting annoying. Useless pings do nothing more
than clutter up ROFF with useless crap that could, and should have, been
taken care of via email. I think you have used more pings in the last
month than I have in the last two years.....

i think it's only been a few in the past couple of weeks, (i think)

What's even worse is that
all of your pings have been things that should have been sent directly
to the recipient via email to begin with. Your excuse of "didn't want
to accidentally send the email to ROFF" makes absolutely no sense.

no, that's not the reason i gave for pinging him, the reason i gave is that
my mail/ server has been ****ed up.


If
you are afraid of sending emails to ROFF, then use one program as a news
reader and another for email so that emails and posts can never mix.

Please don't take any of this the wrong way because I am just trying to
help you out and explain things. Given the number of emails we have
exchanged,

which i have enjoyed very much......


I should hope that you know me well enough to realize I am
not trying to be mean, insulting, degrading, etc and am merely trying to
be helpful.

i can dig it warren. i didn't mean to be annoying with pings, nor has
"pinging" been something i have a "history" of doing on roff. it's just
been a few as of late related to my server issues-
by the way, i sent you a note on my "newest" yahoo account the other day.
did you get it?

snake




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Warren