Guest oolo Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 if using a dos box while in windows, and typing in "ping joe@joe.com" and it comes back with "request timed out" 4 times..... does that mean that 'joe' isnt online? or in this case, it is a gmail address, does that make a difference?? just want to know if pinging lets me know if 'joe' is online at the time of the ping. thanks
Guest Jeff Richards Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: pinging using dos? It means that the address you have specified cannot be located, which is to be expected since you have used an e-mail SMTP address instead of an IP address or computer name. It is not possible to identify whether or not the user of a particular e-mail address is 'online' or not - there is no such concept as 'on-line' attached to e-mail addresses. You may be confusing e-mail with some other form of messaging. For information on how to use the ping command see: http://www.computerhope.com/pinghlp.htm -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "oolo" <oolo@ser.com> wrote in message news:eEnJFdNCIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > if using a dos box while in windows, and typing in "ping joe@joe.com" and > it comes back with > "request timed out" 4 times..... does that mean that > 'joe' isnt online? or in this case, it is a gmail address, does > that make > a difference?? > just want to know if pinging lets me know if 'joe' is online at the time > of > the ping. > > thanks > >
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