[Ads-l] OED login

Thu Aug 17 15:49:50 UTC 2023

Works fine at Princeton.

But the overall login scheme is very poorly conceived. The "45-minute" (actually a random period in practice, ranging from two minutes to several hours) logout is a major disruption to the user's workflow for no apparent security benefit. Plus if one wishes to save one's display preferences, that means logging in twice, once via the institutional login and once to one's personal account. One has to do this multiple times over the course of a research session. (Once it was six times (12 logins) before 10am for me.)

I do, however, like the new user interface in general.

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From: "Joe Salmons" <000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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Working fine at Wisconsin this morning.

From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 10:22 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: OED login
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>
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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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