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Pinging Services
For those of you that know what pinging is you’ll probably be able to understand this post much better then those of who don’t. I’ll admit it, I was a little confused about how it all worked, and honestly I am still trying to figure out how trackbacks work. I’m sure I’ll understand it eventually.

Anyways, for those WordPress users out there, how many use the built-in pinging feature? And I mean how many of us have gone out there and found sites other then the one included in the default install to ping? I know I added Technorati but then I noticed that in my WP 2.0.2 install they included a link to the WordPress website which included a nice long list of hosts you could ping.

I just copied the list and pasted the list. For the last 3-4 posts it’s been hanging or the web page times out because it takes so long to ping all those hosts. So I removed at least half of the hosts, mostly ones that ended in .jp or other foreign countries and now it still takes about 30-45 seconds but it hasn’t timed-out yet. I have about 10-15 services now, maybe a little less.

Should I really be pinging all those services or does 5-6 services do fine??