An end to one form of jesuitry
At one point I had a lovely view out of a north-facing window; it opened out onto the OED, and occasionally I would field a request from people on the southern side of my house to look through it, so I'd open up one of the south-facing windows and give them a telescope so they could see the particular word they wanted to have defined. Naturally, I never stored any (ok, much) of the data that could be gleaned from my view in my own home. I just let people look through my conveniently unobstructed living room.
But not anymore! The OED people complained. Oh well! Over four years of access ain't bad. One wonders what finally tipped them off. (But not because one has anything nefarious in mind, of course—never that. (Really.))
Comments
on 2008-12-04 11:30:59.0, max commented:
Inadequate googleproofing of an obscure word would be my guess. Any word from the last four years would do.
max ['Quite possibly generated by a machine search.']