[Ads-l] OED login

[Geoffrey Nathan]

Here at Wayne State the EasyProxy works just fine.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/an6993

geoffnathan at wayne.edu


From: Laurence Horn<mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 10:55 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: OED login

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Weird. It=E2=80=99s not a global glitch, since the accessing from Yale =
via VPN still works (not that I=E2=80=99m all that pleased with =
oed.com2.0=E2=80=A6)

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 10:18 AM, Jonathan Lighter =
<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> It won't go through my university library either. So far, the public
> library connection works, though I haven't viewed more than two or =
three
> screens in a session.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 9:02=E2=80=AFAM victor steinbok =
<aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Since the recent interface update at OED, the library proxy login no
>> longer works. It doesn't matter if I go through OED or BPL. The BPL =
login
>> works fine, so it's not the card number. But OED goes into a paywall =
after
>> a couple of screens and does not accept the "Boston Public Library" =
and
>> card number "combination".
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>> VS-)
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