Message from Brian Cummiskey (3/18/2005 05:05 PM) >Christian Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm making a blog in ASP and I am at the point now where I'm going to > set up > > pinging when new posts are published. > >what are you going to ping, and for what purpose? > >a ping is a "marco - polo" or sonar-like send and return to tell if a >machine is responding. that's about it. i don't see how a blog post >would have anything to do with it. I think Christian may be referring to trackback pings? http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/ http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/docs/trackback.html Hopefully those two links will help answer the question too. regards. -marc -- Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory. Playyuhself.com http://www.playyuhself.com/