WsOTY? ... "to ping"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/16/2014 03:26 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>Oxford Dictionaries OL (not OED) has an interesting one for ping:
>"Contact a person briefly (especially electronically): he just pinged
>me, pointing to a breaking news story "

An example of usage where some data is sent in the "ping"
message.  The receiver does not need to respond, unlike Wilson's
PING, which checks for the presence of the responder.

Joel


>VS-)
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>On 3/16/14, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: WsOTY? "New Cold War"; "to ping"
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> > WG: <<What is PING?>>
> > WB:  Think of a PING as a facebook POKE for submarines & airplanes.
> > Sometimes, they don't poke back. And we wonder why.
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