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From: stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwebster
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Date: 1 Sep 89 21:18:20 GMT
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I once posted a request on our local (i.e. Berkeley) newsgroup to come up

agate.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.136.1) at port 103
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (129.79.254.19) at port 2627
bu-it.bu.edu (128.197.2.40) at port 2627

The last one apparently has an access restriction, but folks at bu should
be able to use it. I have no idea if the Berkeley server is restricted.
Anyway, it's probably not a good idea to use a server on the east coast when
you happen to be located in California, even it's not restricted. Otherwise
chances are that they soon will be restricted (that's what happened to
SRI-NIC, I was told). You should rather try to locate a nearby server the
way I did.

Now, if you happen to have a NeXT machine somewhere on your network
and keep wondering what it could be good for, here's the answer:
forget all of the above and get Steve Hayman's
(sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) implementation of a Webster server
daemon which taps the NeXT's on-line dictionary.

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Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(415) 642-4274 ext. 126