To do real-world tests of dinging, someone has to ding (the dinger) someone else (the dingee). The dinger's messages slow down somewhat, the dingee's messages slow down more. Then we see what happens to the discussion. At the moment, I'm really only look at the effects on the dingee, since one dinger would have to ding a bunch of dingees before the effect would become very noticeable. And as long as this is manual management, it doesn't scale well.
So, get somebody to ding you. Once you're dung, we can test. Offending *me* or Julia won't do it, because I'm a tester, not a testee. Offend somebody else. Oh, and just as it will be when automated, the identities of dingers and dingees are not shown, but the alert reader can probably detect dingage by looking at headers. (I'm seeing images of small boats and hearing Archie Bunker say, "Dingbat.") And may I add, "Go Giants." I haven't been much of a baseball fan since leaving Pittsburgh a couple of decades ago, but this World Series, with its strangely afflicted pitchers, has been sort of fun. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces@;mccmedia.com]On > Behalf Of Deborah Harrell > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: test > > > --- Nick Arnett wrote: > > We're testing manual "dinging." > > > > <huffing indignantly> > I've written _much_ more offensive posts than that! I > demand a trial, tried by a jury of my peers!* > I demand proof that my posted posts are more offensive > than what others have posted! (Or, How dare you 'ding' > me for posts that I never sent!?...or, how did you > infiltrate my extensively firewalled snoop-proof > Chamber of Stars, surrounded as it is by a "Prismatic > Wall?"... ;/ ) > > * Good luck finding 12 adherents of "Pragmatic > Idealism" who are also heretic "Lutheran Deists", > suffering from "Adaptive Schizophrenia!" <BOSEG> > > You Won't Get Away With This! Maru ;) > > P.S. <serious> As requested, am forwarding Mark C.'s > "hello to the list" - he made it back safely from the > Phillipines. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
