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Newbie Question

Posted on 04/05/2005 1:20:10 PM PDT by redlocks322

Being new and all, I don't understand what a ping is...


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KEYWORDS: arthurmcgowan; herewegoagain; ohboy; ping
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1 posted on 04/05/2005 1:20:10 PM PDT by redlocks322
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To: redlocks322

Oh boy


2 posted on 04/05/2005 1:21:27 PM PDT by RushCrush (My tagline escapes me.)
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To: redlocks322

I'm not telling!


3 posted on 04/05/2005 1:21:45 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (Heooo to the ganags of epople.)
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To: redlocks322

sending an alert (ping) to another (set of) FReeper(s) on a thread you've been reading.


4 posted on 04/05/2005 1:21:46 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: redlocks322; Flyer; Eaker; humblegunner
OH GEEZzzzzzzzzzz, now you did it! ROFL

PING.....

5 posted on 04/05/2005 1:22:05 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
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To: redlocks322

this is a ping


6 posted on 04/05/2005 1:22:08 PM PDT by al baby (Dick Trickle is not just a medical condition)
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It means you are notifying other Freepers about the thread.


7 posted on 04/05/2005 1:22:13 PM PDT by Callahan
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8 posted on 04/05/2005 1:22:45 PM PDT by RushCrush (My tagline escapes me.)
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To: al baby

this is your brain on ping


9 posted on 04/05/2005 1:22:49 PM PDT by al baby (Dick Trickle is not just a medical condition)
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To: redlocks322

First, you must be certain that you are logged in.


10 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:02 PM PDT by Skooz (Host organism for the State parasite)
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yankee party pooper! ;-)


11 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:05 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
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To: redlocks322

Kinda like a kidney stone; can hurt enough to have certain FReepers want to share the pain with others.


12 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:06 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (I don't drink and FReep...it just looks that way)
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To: redlocks322

ping [from 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 (note that `ping(8)''s author denies the widespread folk etymology that the name was ever intended as acronym `Packet INternet Groper'). Occasionally used as a phone greeting.


13 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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When you want to alert someone to a particular story, you ping them. There are several ping lists here for different types of things.


14 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:09 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: redlocks322

Do we have to start a new thread everytime we don't understand something?


15 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:24 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (What're you looking at?)
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To: Callahan
Aren't FReepers so warm & friendly to newcomers?

LOL

16 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:35 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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17 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:45 PM PDT by RushCrush (My tagline escapes me.)
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This is a "PING"

18 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:45 PM PDT by kingattax
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First make sure you are logged in ..if you are not the pings will escape and cause havoc


19 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:57 PM PDT by woofie
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Are you an attention seeker ? You can ask this question on any thread and get an answer.


20 posted on 04/05/2005 1:24:00 PM PDT by John Lenin
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