Dear Inkshedders,
I thought you'd be interested in the WPA response to my query about
the "access denied" phenomenon on the WPA site--it seems to be a
temporary situation which they are working to fix. Best, Betsy
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:33:20 -0500
From: David Blakesley <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [Council of Writing Program Administrators] message from Digital
WPA user Betsy Sargent
It's just a temporary glitch. Those position statements, etc. have
always been publicly available. We have been receiving quite a few
malicious attacks, so I'm looking into the reasons why most pages are
not serving correctly.
Best,
Dave Blakesley
WPA Web Developer.
[log in to unmask] wrote:
>I'm wondering what the purpose is of the WPA site and all of its policy
>statements now being inaccessible unless you have a login name and a
>password? I'm co-chairing a Writing Task Force at U of Alberta, and we
>have the URL for the WPA site and especially the Outcomes Statement for
>First-Year Composition embedded in many of our online documents--and now,
>of course, they all take people to a page where it says "Access
>Denied". I of course
>understand that parts of the site should be restricted to users who have
>login names and passwords, but the main page and all the policy
>statements? That makes no sense to me. This issue just came up on
>the Inkshed
>listserv because a few people were trying to read the WPA Outcomes
>Statement online. I'm hoping this is just a temporary
>glitch. Thanks--Betsy Sargent
At 08:01 AM 12/18/2006, Russ Hunt wrote:
>Interesting: if I search with the quotes in place -- for that
>specific phrase -- I don't get the JSTOR listing. I have to
>take the quotes off. The actual title is "OUTCOMES STATEMENT FOR
>FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION" -- and that'll pull up a number of sites
>posting the statement.
>
>(You have to wonder what the reasoning was for password-
>protecting it on the WPA site.)
>
>-- Russ
>
>
>St. Thomas University
>http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
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