Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!nmsu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: where to get machine readable text? Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 21:40:16 GMT References: <2945@network.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 23 In-reply-to: av@kielo.uta.fi's message of 18 Sep 90 05:33:35 GMT Paul> I am looking for places (hopefully free, via ftp) to get machine Paul> readable text if you are only interested in getting machine readable text, but not necessarily interested in getting machine readable text of great historical value, then you have come to the right place. you are literally swimming in free text. network news is one of the handiest sources of text known. mega-words and mega-words of it. and if that isn't enough, just wait a week and you will have that much again. it is pretty much vernacular and content is usually missing, but it is text. -- ted@nmsu.edu +---------+ | In this | | style | |__10/6___|