Re: [dict-beta] Aspell (formully Kspell) News and Updates

[Doug L. Hoffman]

On Wed 28 Oct 1998 10:15:53 -0500,
   Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> wrote:
 > Rik Faith wrote:
 > > 
 > > Just a short note on copyright issues.
 > > 
 > > The list of "not found" words on the FILE page are words which thousands of
 > > random people typed into dict search engines.  These lists are in the
 > > public domain because our hope is that people will use them for things like
 > > aspell and will contribute their work back to the community.  For example,
 > > a huge public domain list of misspelled words with 1-3 possible corrections
 > > per words would be a valuable contribution that we should host from the
 > > file page.  [I say 1-3, because some of the word pairs in the aspell list
 > > are not corrections which I would have selected.]
 > 
 > The problem is that the list will be constently changing as aspell
 > improves.
 > Lets talk about how to work this out best.  Perhapes a link to my page
 > instead.  Or maybe a way that I can have access to update the page
 > myself?
 >

If the latest version is available online we can set up a mirror to keep
the dist.org copy in sync.

Regards,
doug