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Re: problem with Britanica online - please respond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Nov 16 22:25:18 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:25:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Jovan Ristic <jristic@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb@MIT.EDU, SIPB Webmasters <webmaster@MIT.EDU>,
Libraries Webmasters <webmaster@MALGOSIA.MIT.EDU>
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I'm adding the SIPB webmasters and libraries webmasters to the list
of recipients, and am only bcc'ing to postmaster and bug-sipb.
MIT no longer subscribes to the www.eb.com service; I think I saw
an announcement about this at some time in the past, but can no longer
find the announcement when I wander around the library's web site.
It does appears that the web page http://www.mit.edu/wwwservices.html=20
is out of date, perhaps the sipb webmasters will update the page.
It is also the case that many of the Library's web pages are out of
date. Pages like http://libraries.mit.edu/lists/databases.html , and
http://nimrod.mit.edu/common/reference/webster.html both seem to
suggest that we still subscribe to eb.com, but we don't.
Perhaps when I bring this to the attention of the libraries webmaster,
they will update their site.
Almost the same as the old www.eb.com is www.britannica.com, which
you can use to search and view the britannica encyclopedia.
I hope this helps,
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
MIT SIPB
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:04:49 -0500
From: Jovan Ristic <jristic@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb@mit.edu, bug-sipb@mit.edu, postmaster@mit.edu
Subject: problem with Britanica online - please respond
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
