Didn't work for me I'm afraid! Changed my cookie settings to always allow that domain, but still couldn't get past the login page. Cheers Graham Lewis Sydney -----Original Message----- From: John Addis-Smith [mailto:genl@addisgen.com] Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 5:18 AM To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SoG] Temporary Free Access to Both the Oxford OED and DNB As part of The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival there is free access this week to both the full Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The TimesOnline Sunday Times Literary Festival page is at: www.timesonline.co.uk/oxfordlitfestival from where links to the OED and DNB Online search screens can be picked up from the section titled 'OED ONLINE OFFER' a few inches down the page. Note that your browser security issues such as not accepting cookies, etc may need to be modified for access. Otherwise you may see a Subscriber Login screen . . . Cheers, John This email has been scanned for viruses by NetBenefit using Sophos anti-virus technology -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005

Mine are set to Accept All Cookies and I went straight in whiz bang. Tom On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:58:12 +0000, "Graham Lewis" (by way of Geoffrey <lists@sog.org.uk>) wrote: >Didn't work for me I'm afraid! Changed my cookie settings to always allow >that domain, but still couldn't get past the login page. > >Cheers > >Graham Lewis >Sydney > >-----Original Message----- >From: John Addis-Smith [mailto:genl@addisgen.com] >Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 5:18 AM >To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SoG] Temporary Free Access to Both the Oxford OED and DNB > > >As part of The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival there is free >access this week to both the full Oxford English Dictionary and the >Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. > >The TimesOnline Sunday Times Literary Festival page is at: > www.timesonline.co.uk/oxfordlitfestival >from where links to the OED and DNB Online search screens can be >picked up from the section titled 'OED ONLINE OFFER' a few inches down >the page. > >Note that your browser security issues such as not accepting cookies, >etc may need to be modified for access. Otherwise you may see a >Subscriber Login screen . . . > > >Cheers, John > > > > > >This email has been scanned for viruses by NetBenefit using Sophos >anti-virus technology > > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005 > > Cheers, Tom <tomp@st.net.au> Tom Perrett Proud to be member of Melbourne DPS, first port of call re Victorian research - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc