[2657] in SIPB bug reports
webster problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Mar 26 11:17:49 1992
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 11:16:52 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: ckclark@mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Calvin Clark's message of Mon, 23 Mar 92 17:45:27 -0500 <9203232245.AA23946@podge>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 17:45:27 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
The webster server is running, and "webster conniption" works, but
"webster conniptions" times out. This is repeatable.
This is to be expected, because of the brain-damaged algorithm that
the server uses to try to figure out what you meant when it can't find
what you typed and you may have misspelled. The time it takes to find
a word that is in the dictionary has no relation at all to the time it
takes to cope with a word that is not.
In my copious free time, perhaps I'll finish the server rewrite that I
started a couple years ago. I doubt it, though.
jik
