mark,
 
ml> i already pointed there... i was speaking of elsewhere as in some other
ml> document that the FTSC used to create that section...
 
"PING" was created by yours truly and included into the nodelist March 26th
2001, some 10 days shy of 20 years ago.
 
The description which I gave was the following ....
 
    If a message destined to "PING" arrives at its final destination
    and this final destination flies the "PING"-flag, then the
    receiving node will bounce the message back to the original
    sender clearly displaying all the original via-lines.
 
    If a message destined to "PING" arrives at its final destination
    but this final destination does _not_ fly the "PING"-flag then the
    message may be deleted from the inbound-queue without further follow-up.
 
Seems very straightforward to me and not what certain individuals try to make
it into.
 
 \%/@rd

--- DB4 - Dec.21 2020