[Admin Moderator]

Ping - draw another poster(s) attention to a thread by including their screen name in the to: box.

Banglist - of interest to 2nd Amendment posters.

Bump - a content-free post meant to get articles back into the Latest Comments view.

You can forward links via emails just as long as you make a donation to the Free Republic Moderator's Retirement/Beer Party fund (just kidding, we only have a beer fund).

[shotdog]

To beer, or not to beer; that is the question. Will consult the Exchequer prior to the next quarter fund drive. This is inarguably the best of the blogs. Thanks.

[CGASMIA68]

Who said Mods dont like beer?

[mamelukesabre]

I always thought “ping” was a reference to the archaic days of DOS. When you were trying to link two computers together back in the day, you “pinged” them to see if they were receiving the signal. And this term was itself a reference to the military term used in sonar communications between subs.

So when you “ping” someone on FR, you are essentially saying “did you get that signal?”

[fatima]

Yes or they can send to the fund raiser Beer Mod:)