was (RE: ispell findings...) now...making changes

[Chanh Ong]

Thanks to Bob H. has done most of the research, and there are no
major objection from the group.  I have enable the ispell this week.

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scn at scn.org [mailto:owner-scn at scn.org]On Behalf Of Bill S
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 5:14 PM
> To: allen
> Cc: hardware at scn.org; scna-board at scn.org; excom at scn.org; scn at scn.org;
> Chanh Ong
> Subject: Re: was (RE: ispell findings...) now...making changes
>
>
> Hi Allen (et al);
>
> The ispell spell check program has been used @speakeasy.org for at least a
> year and seems to work well there. Perhaps we could make use of their
> experience with this program. They are running a SUN Unix system similar
> to ours except for the Freeport software and they are using Pine and PICO
> in,  I think, the same versions we use on SCN.
>
> If someone from hardware wants to contact them I'd suggest Mike
> Apgar(mike at speakeasy.org), Doug Brick (dbrick at speakeasy.org) or their help
> desk (support at speakeasy.org).
>
> Don't know if there are any political implications here but I think they'd
> be at least willing to share any problems that may have been associated
> with .ispell.english. They seem to be using it with no obvious problems
> and after all the worst they can say is "NO".
>
> Bill Scott
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, allen wrote:
>
> > I agree with Chanh.  we do not have state secrets to protect...nor the
> > luxury of a big budget for testing...or lots of expert bodies for doing
> > the testing.  In the meantime...our users are the ones who are
> suffering...
> > and I thought THEY were why we are here!
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Chanh Ong wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:38:56 -0700
> > > From: Chanh Ong <chanh at scn.org>
> > > To: hardware at scn.org
> > > Subject: RE: ispell findings...
> > >
> > > I think Bob has done enough testing and I also done some
> testing my and
> > > I have not run across any more issue.
> > >
> > > If you have any specific reason, let hear it.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-hardware at scn.org
> [mailto:owner-hardware at scn.org]On Behalf Of
> > > > John Johnson
> >
> > > Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 1:48 AM
> > > > To: hardware at scn.org
> > > > Subject: RE: ispell findings...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Chanh Ong wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If I do not recieve any objection in a week, I will assume it
> > > > will be put in
> > > > > for Freeport user to have a better speller.
> > > >
> > > > WRONG APPROACH!  We need to _determine_ whether that is a
> suitable thing
> > > > to do.  It needs to be TESTED.  (And I mean _tested_, not
> just played
> > > > around with a little while.)  If we are not going to do
> this properly,
> > > > then I object to putting it in.
> > > >
> > > > === JJ
> =================================================================
> > > >
> Bill S
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