how to know if I'm on-line or not

[J. Landman Gay]

Jon wrote:
 > I actually started doing just as you suggested (getting Google) when no
 > one else chimed in.  Works fine, although I wonder how fond the folks at
 > Google are at us hammering away at them all of the time <grin>

Well, they just issued umpty-gazillion new shares of stock today, so I'd 
think they would welcome the business. ;)

Seriously though, if you don't want to rely on a third-party web site, 
the technique works just as well if you get a 1K text file from your own 
server.

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