Beli..you lurkin

WessB

Might you contact me by E mail with some contact numbers and convenient times...I would like to talk to ya bout a few things..

Misippi Egger

Looks a lot like a "PING" to me..... :ohmy:

cookn biker

:laugh: :laugh:

Ripnem

:blink: :ohmy: :laugh:

Hoss

U find da book??? :huh:

cookn biker

I did, A friend came over and we meandered into the spare bedroom and poof, there it was. :cheer: Who'd a thunk.. :laugh:

Hoss

COOL!

Beli

Wess you've got mail my friend!!

WessB

Guess it's a good friggin thing I didn't ask you then huh..

WessB

Got it...I'll get back with ya at the times metioned.

Unknown

Whether you used the word or not you just "pinged" someone. Here is what you said not too long ago about that practice. Knock me for being anonymous, but it does not invalidate my point. So, are you calling yourself ignorant?

Posted by: WessB on 2008/08/12 19:33:54

In Reply to: What's A Ping? posted by Central IL Egger on 2008/08/12 17:05:15

It's a computer command that IT people use to see if a specific computer or device is on a network....and also something that forum users abuse the hell out of for all the wrong reasons...totally annoying..if you feel the need to "ping" a user...either send em an email or check the "who's online" list...definately bothers me and just shows that users ignorance....

Wess

wbreeden"at"gmail.com

Bacchus

Being anonomous doesnt invalidate your point, it just means you are a pantie waisted coward.

I do agree with you though, as much as it pains me. It looks, smells, and sounds like a ping to me too. Sorry Wess my bud.

See, anon that is how it's done. If you are gonna critisize someone, have some guts and do it to their face.

All that being said, most everyone throws out a ping on occassion as opposed to everytime you want to communicate with another forum member like some folks do.

Just my threee cents.

WessB

Thanks just the same..it's all good, and I wont reply to anon's like that.

Here's what wiki says about "ping"...nothing like my post..

Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for packets sent from the local host to a destination computer, including the local host's own interfaces.

Ping operates by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets to the target host and waits for an ICMP response, sometimes casually called a pong. In the process it measures the round-trip time[1] and records any packet loss. The results of the test are printed in form of a statistical summary of the response packets received, including the minimum, maximum, and the mean round-trip times, and sometimes the standard deviation of the mean.

The use of the ping utility is usually described as pinging a host computer. Ping has various command line options depending on the host operating system that enable special operational modes, such as to specify the packet size used as the probe, automatic repeated operation for sending a specified count of probes, time stamping options, or to perform a ping flood. Flood pinging may be abused as a simple form of denial-of-service attack, in which the attacker overwhelms the victim with ICMP echo request packets

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

aw yooo.

so am i correct in saying that your ONLY issue is that the user uses the word "ping", not that they are using the forum to get the attention of a single member?

that's cool. understood. but that is clearer than what i thought you were sayin'. i thought you just hated private forum subjects/threads/attention-getting. turns out you have an anti-woodie for the word "ping", or maybe just its (mis)use.

but you might want to let wiki know that the idea of a "ping" predates networked computers by a few decades. submariners would "ping" an object (literally, send out a "ping") to echo-locate a vessel, confirming whether it was there or not.

"ping" is a word derived from the act of a submarine sonar tech sending a literal "ping" into the water.

so, i dunno if that changes things. to me, knowing the REAL origin of the word implies that it is much closer to what people are actually doing here... sending out a ping to see if someone is there. it's maybe still annoying to some, but i think it IS analogous to what the word actually means.

if it is bad form for someone on a forum to borrow a phrase from computer networking terminology, then perhaps it is wrong for the computer network folks to have borrowed it from the navy?

hehehe

to me, i don't care about the word. i think it's just plain lame to notify someone on a public forum when you could do it via email.

for example, i talk to fidel about 15 times a day via email (what can i say, we are internet lovers). let's say i don't like the word "ping" either, but that fidel and i decided to use the word "knob-jockey" as our code for "i just sent an email".

would it be bad form for me to say "OT: ping Fidel" 15 times a day, but perfectly okay to say "OT: nob-jockey, Fidel" instead?

it's a rhetorical question.

even so, the answer is no. (since i made up the rhetorical question, i get to answer it!) It is lame to use the forum to tell someone they have mail, or that you would like them to email you. ping or no ping.

but it might be even lamer to berate them solely because they use a word that irritates you specifically. especially when your understanding of its origins isn't entirely correct.

:evil:

no hard feelings. i just gotta stand up for the CORRECT use of the word "ping" :evil:

WessB

Cest la vie...

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

aw yer no fun anymore...