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Re: Log In or Login?

Subject: Re: Log In or Login?
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:49:46 -0400


Correct for the Windows world. But most UNIX apps and
documentation use "login" and "logout" (or at least they
used to...) rather than the "log on" and "log off" terminology
preferred by Microsoft. Maybe with Linux, that OS shibboleth
is finally beginning to die out?

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


From: arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com
Subject: Re: Log In or Login?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:35:25 -0400


Which style guide do you primarily use?

MS MSTP says "Use 'log on' or 'log on to' (not 'log onto') to refer to creating a user session on a computer or a network. Use 'log off' or 'log off from' to refer to ending a user session on a computer or network. Use 'sign in' and 'sing out' to refer to creating and ending a suer session on the Internet. Do not use 'log in', 'login', 'log onto', 'log off of', 'logout', 'sign off', or 'sign on' unless these terms appear in the user interface. The verb form is two words, 'log on' or 'log off'. As a noun or adjective, use one word, no hyphen: 'logon' or 'logoff'."

I used single quotes instead of italics, but you get the gist.

Good luck!

Arroxane

-----Original Message-----
Rebecca Hopkins <rebecca_hopkins -at- comcast -dot- net> asked, "Which do you use, 'log in page' or 'login page'?"

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