[708] in SIPB bug reports
Broken webster server?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 31 09:59:54 1989
From: dcc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 10:00:31 EST
There was a time I was able to use xwebster quite successfully to
look up most words, and it behaved well for most misspelled words even
quite long ones. Recently, in the last week or so, xwebster has been
crashing so frequently that it has become practically useless, and the
words I've been trying to lookup are generally shorter than they used
to be. Has something changed? Judging by your error message, it would
seem that you don't consider the crashes I've been experiencing to be
real problems because of the misspelled words I've been looking up.
Since I use xwebster primarily for spelling, I find the attitude your
message conveys a bit parochial. Are there any plans to make
xwebster/webster more robust?
--david
