> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com] > #Hmm. Define "online". > # > #If it means "at a computer", It's probably something close to 100 > #hrs/wk for me. > > I certainly wouldn't call it that, any more than being in a > room with a > radio -- not necessarily turned on -- counts as listening to > the radio. > "Online", to me, means actively using the Internet (including its > subset the WWW). Upon reflection, it's hard to tell when I am _online_ or not (in terms of internet), when using the computer, since I tend to being running several things at once, and swap between them. Additionally, I'm usually IM'able (which may or may not count, depending on perspective), and semi-active on a mu*. In theory the only time I'm probably not actually doing something on the internet is if I happen to be "working away from my computer" (e.g. working someone else's computer) or if I happen to be playing a computer game (single player...most of my computer game time is multiplayer internet play), but even then, I usually have Trillian (IM Client) running on another machine. :) Iain