Hi Barry Hale and Scanlon's Wired Style - and what better resource for an online term :-) - says: Login: The account name used etc... Logon: The procedure used to gain access to a network (opp Logoff). Andy ::andy williamson ::wairua consulting limited ::www.wairua.com ::www.edemocracy.co.nz -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2005 05:55 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] login/logon Which is the preferred usage: "login" or "logon". For my paper writing, I'd like to standardize on one. Google shows: "login": 218 Million hits "logon": 6.7 Million hits so there is a 30:1 preference for login vs. logon. But I'd love to hear some more debate. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network () ASCII ribbon campaign -- don't use HTML email /\ _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org/airjoin.html