At 12:00 PM 02/03/05 -0500, you wrote:

It could be said that "login" is the act of connecting while "logon" is the state of being connected. Yet, I belive the 2 words are often used interchangeably, as in "Is Nancy logged in?"

Perhaps it is a past and present tense thing. For example, I may ask someone in the present tense "Can I logIN using your computer?" Alternatively someone might ask me "Have you ever logged ON to that message board?", which would be past tense. To respond my second example I might say "Ya I logged ON last night" if that were the case but would say "I will logIN tomorrow to check it out" if that were instead true. Laura _ Laura O'Grady Ph.D. Candidate OISE / University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/ logrady@oise.utoronto.ca l.ogrady@sympatico.ca _