> From: "Russ Cox" <russcox@gmail.com>

thanks for the clarification, but PING is not an
acceptable error message should you have a
routing/ISP/firewall problem ...

cut to monty python's _the meaning of life_:

    have we got the machine that goes BING?

btw: nor is 'postnote 2'.

bbtw: even ralph tries to get things right.