What does "Ping" mean?

Giving a correct, coherent answer? You must be loosing it!

41 posted on 07/02/2006 8:09:48 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)

Maybe zot is the past tense of zit.

42 posted on 07/02/2006 8:09:56 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)

To: Slings and Arrows

43 posted on 07/02/2006 8:10:03 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)

44 posted on 07/02/2006 8:10:16 AM PDT by faq

45 posted on 07/02/2006 8:10:47 AM PDT by new cruelty

Maineman,
Don't mind all those people teasing you... it's only in fun and FReepers love to tease goodnaturedly (unless you are a troll). Assuming that you are not a troll but just a newbie, here's your answer:

If you are logged in, you can click on the "ping" link in your login menu and see links to all the posts you have made or to posts that people have made in answer to your posts. That gives you a handy way of finding your past posts or knowing when someone answers you. Unlike some other forums, nothing comes to your email box, you just have to keep checking your ping list.

Another use for pings is that it is a way for FReepers to point out good articles or posts to friends. A FReeper can amass a "ping list" or a list of other FReepers who have asked to be on their list.... then when they want to announce something or point to something, they do a post to all the names on their "ping list". That post will then show up in your pings if you are on the list because someone has put your name on the post. Many ping lists are set up by subject matter.... for instance you can be on a "UFO ping list" , the FReeper who has that list will alert you to posts about UFOs.

Hope this helps.... HAPPY PINGING

46 posted on 07/02/2006 8:12:25 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

47 posted on 07/02/2006 8:12:39 AM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)

To: maineman; COEXERJ145; microgood; liberallarry; cmsgop; shaggy eel; RayChuang88; Larry Lucido; ...

48 posted on 07/02/2006 8:13:42 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative

To: BunnySlippers

49 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:01 AM PDT by mikrofon (Sha-bappa-lupa)

Thanks alot!

Most people only want to be jerks!

50 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:03 AM PDT by maineman

My very own ping. And my first list!

51 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:18 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

OMG.. 40 something replies added while I was typing my answer.
Got to learn to type faster!!!!

52 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:50 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: theophilusscribe

53 posted on 07/02/2006 8:14:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)

To: Arthur McGowan; Solamente

Perhaps one of you can comment.

54 posted on 07/02/2006 8:15:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999 !!!)

Let me tune my beeber to stune.

55 posted on 07/02/2006 8:15:18 AM PDT by Woodstock (: >)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

The AntiPing?

Or maybe the UnclePing.

56 posted on 07/02/2006 8:15:57 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)

To: maineman; Samwise

57 posted on 07/02/2006 8:16:20 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (I said lunch, not launch!)

58 posted on 07/02/2006 8:16:34 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

It's from Monty Python: http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Sounds/MeaningOfLife/Bing.au

ROFLMAO

59 posted on 07/02/2006 8:16:35 AM PDT by Woodstock (: >)

PING is a new game where you release 100 liberals in the swamp and the conservative hunters compete to see who can tag and bag the most.

60 posted on 07/02/2006 8:17:02 AM PDT by scratcher

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Mega Ping!