[Air-l] login/logon -- add 1

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Wed Mar 2 09:00:50 PST 2005


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?"

 Barry
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