Space Cowboy wrote:
> I also log in and out for each post because the Internet is a stateless
> system that is there is no guarantee you will be recognized as a Client
> the next time you use the Post method expected by the Server. There
> are ways around this conundrum but no standards. BTW the non standard
> communications are also used by viruses.
>
> Jim
>

I don’t think there is any need to login and logout for each post, HTTP
protocol is stateless (Internet is too broad a term) but the most common
way to track state is thru cookies, so I am pretty sure they know who
you are, and the fact that your login is 10 or 20 min old should not
make any difference, however Google can use some timeout, so if you were
inactive for some time they can log you out. But I don’t use browser to
post messages to this group and could not be sure if Google have timeout
and of the amount of time before timeout.

Oleg