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I'm new...what does ping mean.

I have this on my homepage, Hopefully it will help

To Newbies who are not familiar with Pings and how a Ping list works here is a quick (and hopefully coherent) explanation

A Ping is a post that alerts someone to a article you think they will find interesting, By Pinging them they will get a "New Post to You" message and it will appear in their My Comments. This way they will be alerted to the article even if it is no longer on the Freerepublic screen or under the Latest Post/Articles sections. There is nothing special about a ping post, It's just a normal post with the word "PING" in it.

A Ping list is a group of Freerepublic members each of whom want to be pinged to an article when a certain subject comes up. Usually one person is in charge of the Ping list and when an article on the subject appears on Freerepublic that person will ping all the members of the ping list at the same time. You usually freepmail the person in charge of the ping list to be added. As a member of a ping list if you post an article or find an article that you think would be of interest to the people on the ping list and it is not already pinged to that ping list yet you ping the person in charge (In the case of the Xer Pinglist that would be me) and they will then ping everybody else on the list.