Joel Madero wrote:
<snip>
A ping is just a quick email (or IRC message, etc...) that says "hey, any
updates", some users even just say "ping" in IRC basically saying "hey, you
around?"
<snip>
Joel,
"ping", another overloaded word:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping
But those of us in the computer networking field assume:
Ping, a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host
is reachable across an IP network
Colloquially, it is used as you define it - to send a quick message to
someone to see what's going on in their life. As in
"I haven't heard from him for a while - I'm going to ping him to see
what he's up to."
Girvin Herr
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