[7677] in SIPB bug reports
problem with Britanica online - please respond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jovan Ristic)
Thu Nov 16 22:05:56 2000
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:04:49 -0500
To: sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
From: Jovan Ristic <jristic@MIT.EDU>
I am sending this to three addresses, hoping that at least one is the right
place to get an answer from!
I have repeatedly experienced a very annoying problem with Encyclopedia
Britannica online (and I have used it quite often in my research work): I
open the site and get a (small window) alert to "enter username or
password", which I normally never need to do and therefore have none, but,
of course, when this happens, whatever I try to click or type, I get the
message:
"We're Sorry... Your access to Encyclop=E6dia Britannica Online has been
denied. Your authorization may have failed... "
Yet, on your site of WWW services provided by SIPB, you have written that:
The Encyclopedia Britannica is available online to MIT. Licensing
restrictions require the following text: "by the terms of MIT's license
agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica, access to these materials is
limited to Authorized Users of the MIT community only".
Is there a problem with MIT's license? or something wrong with my
(Macintosh?) connection (seems absurd) in my office NE20-351 (Brain & Cog
Dept)?
Please instruct.
With thanks and best regards,
Jovan Ristic
