[ale] OT: Re: ping

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On 8/22/06, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that PING was a reference to the sound a sonar
> makes.
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> This is according to the inventor of ping:
> http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html <http://ftp.arl.mil/%7Emike/ping.html>
>

>From that article:
" From my point of view PING is *not* an acronym standing for Packet
InterNet Grouper, it's a sonar analogy. However, I've heard second-hand that
Dave Mills offered this expansion of the name, so perhaps we're both right.
Sheesh, and I thought the government was bad about expanding acronyms! :-)"


-Johnny
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