[5098] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Servers are broken.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 10 15:29:43 1995
To: "Jeffrey T. Sorensen" <sorensen@iastate.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jan 1995 10:47:19 CST."
<9501091647.AA12291@calvin.cc.iastate.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:29:30 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> calvin~% webster tree
> The webster servers have failed to answer the request to look up
> your word. This could be because the webster server is down, or
> because your word is too long and the server can't find it. Try
> looking up "tree" -- if that works, then you've probably misspelled
> your word. If it fails, then send mail to bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> to let the SIPB know that the servers are broken.
One of the webster servers was temporarily off of the net, and the
webster client isn't smart enough to try more than one server. Sorry
for the inconvenience.
