Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: Re: dictionary servers Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 21:52:08 GMT References: <70749@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: aro@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: teachg In-reply-to: royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 9 Nov 90 04:58:02 GMT On 9 Nov 90 04:58:02 GMT, royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle) said: royle> iuvax.cs.indiana.edu is a webster server. royle> it is also the home of the software to use NeXT as a webster royle> server for a generic UNIX clients. (anon ftp) This is the second message with details about locating a webster server. I am not sure, and apologies in advance if I am wrong, but I seem to remember that Webster is copyrighted material and one has to pay a copyright fee for making copies of it, e.g. broadcasting or public performance fees, or copying pats of it over the network. Probably MIT, Berkeley and Indiana have paid the appropriate fees for their sites, but access from other sites is a copyright violation, if what I surmise above is true. Not only that, but accessing somebody's else webster server without prior permission is not good net etiquette anyhow, just like accessing somebody's else NNTP server, unless they are explicitly made available for network wide access, like anonymous FTP servers are. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk