Thread Question

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Guys - I appreciate the clarification.   So it looks like they used a
class for the ping thread because they were a) running multiple
instances of the thread concurrently and b) needing to keep track of
the state of each instance, correct?  I believe that in my case, since
I will be just running one instance of the thread to ensure that the
remote system is functioning properly, that the single statement should
work just fine.