Re: OED

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Gee whilikers, it works from outside Norwich (UK) too, not that I
need it. I guess there's something cheering in the fact that it is
simply too expensive, or too much trouble, to hire the necessary data
clerks to get these things properly organized.

At 2/20/2012 01:23 PM, you wrote:
>Dear Robert
>
> From London, 00000000 does not work, but 11111111 does.
>
>Paul
>
>On 19/02/2012 17:59, Robert Holmgren wrote:
>>** Reply to message from Bill Troop on
>>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:52:16 +0000
>>
>>>Robert, I'm not sure what you mean here, please s'plain
>>
>>Maybe I refrained from explaining the online options on the OED
>>website; I just checked and I guess I misspoke. Because you
>>live (or lived) in Northern Ireland, where it's particularly
>>difficult to remember your library card number, OUP has
>>graciously simplified everything by recognizing patterns, rather
>>than real library card numbers: thus just about any 8-digit
>>number is deemed a "library card", e.g. 00000000 or 11111111...
>>Now, this will work even if you happen to be deployed somewhere
>>else, such as London, or USA, or Timbuctoo (old spelling). So,
>>for example, if you go to www.oed.com ==> Sign In ==> Library
>>Card number ==> 00000000, I do believe you are 100% "in".
>>Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>>I hasten to add that because this accommodation is not widely
>>appreciated outside Northern Ireland (indeed, outside Belfast
>>Bible College, where library card memory lapses were rampant),
>>maybe it shouldn't be redistributed.
>>
>>Cheers, R.
>>
>>-----------------------------
>>Robert Holmgren
>>holmgren@acedsl.com
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