As you may or may not know I think pinging "something" to determine whether or not to do "something" is fundamentally flawed logic.

An example would be ping a mail server, if the ping is good then send the mail. At best it is naive in it's assumption. If you want to discuss it or have an example of when it is better, I'll be glad to.

So yesterday I was involved in another debate and this morning I got up and put together some code that addresses this issue.

If you want to try the code out it can be found by clicking the Ban Ping-Then-Do link in my signature.