are you saying that dale advocates *illicit access to OED online?

That's what I assume he meant, language being degraded and all such like. (Whenever I read protocol, I think of Hank Ford and his history is all bunkum press.)

(I surely don't.)

Perish the thought. I would never suggest it. (And I don't care who knows it.)

Ceci n'est pas un seing.