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225	from Wired News: Hotmail: A Spammer's Paradise? (IT/IS Important 2:00 a.m. PDT) http://go.hotwired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57132,00.html/wn_ascii ...	Erin McKean editorverbatim	Jan 9, 2003 8:31 pm
226	... Yes, but quite an old one--they were talking about dictionary attacks in the late 1980s, and almost certainly earlier. Jesse Sheidlower OED...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	Jan 9, 2003 8:35 pm
227	It's certainly not a new coinage. Dictionary attacks have been used for years to try to break into accounts where people use simple words as their passwords. A...	Philip Trauring trauring	Jan 9, 2003 8:37 pm
228	_dictionary_ in the sense of a list of computer data is first listed in Webster's 6,000 Words (c. 1976), according to my quick search. I do not find...	Barnhart Barnhart@...	Jan 9, 2003 9:15 pm
229	... A quick search of likely sources shows that _dictionary attack_ was mentioned in Vol. 4 No. 24 of RISKS Digest, from 1987. As I said, I'm sure it's...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	Jan 9, 2003 9:25 pm
230	... That should have ben No. 84; my apologies. JTS...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	Jan 9, 2003 9:26 pm
231		Barnhart Barnhart@...	Jan 9, 2003 9:28 pm
232	Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the great Welsh historical dictionary, has been completed after over eighty years' work. The project began in 1921 with the first 27...	Andrew Hawke geiriadur	Jan 13, 2003 5:01 pm
233	I just had a phone call from Janet Morton, Herb Morton's daughter, who relayed the sad news of Herb's death late in December. Last July he had a recurrence of...	Joan Hall jdhall@...	Jan 15, 2003 7:49 pm
234	Do you have an address for condolences, or will that run in the newsletter? Thanks for letting us all know. --Erin...	Erin McKean editorverbatim	Jan 15, 2003 7:53 pm
235	Thanks for reminding me. Janet Morton 421 Ryan Road Cary, NC 27511 Herb's widow is Barbara Orlans 7106 Laverock Lane Bethesda, MD 20817-4734...	Joan Hall jdhall@...	Jan 15, 2003 8:12 pm
236	This is very sad news! I got to know Herb well at DSNA meetings and also through conferring with him on Newsletter matters. He was such a helpful, ...	Victoria Neufeldt v.neufeldt@...	Jan 15, 2003 10:31 pm
237	Could anyone answer this? Thanks. To him, please....	Luanne von Schneideme... lvonschn@...	Jan 17, 2003 4:23 am
238	... The two? What makes you think there are only two? There are a number of words in English with the vowels in order, including _abstemious, abstentious,...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	Jan 17, 2003 5:31 am
239	I think this quiz has mutated. I've been seeing it for a while with "Ten Words ..." Anyway, Peter Czukor sent me this nice answer that should help with future...	Erin McKean editorverbatim	Jan 17, 2003 1:12 pm
240	To all: There has been discussion on copyright and the new laws at several NHA meetings (held in conjunction with ACLS meetings) over the last few years....	Luanne von Schneideme... lvonschn@...	Jan 18, 2003 2:02 am
241	Margaret L wins the prize! I just don't know what the prize is. Go Tigers! We're comin' back! Frank Abate ... That would be Aurelio Rodriguez, former third...	Frank Abate word2mine	Jan 19, 2003 10:48 am
242	Dear Luanne: Thanks for the copyright paper. I haven't had time to absorb it all, but am glad to have it for future consultation and reference. Hope all's well...	johnalgeo@...	Jan 19, 2003 7:29 pm
243	All ANSers, ADSers, and DSNAers I urge you to look at the latest issue of National Geographic, for Feb 2003 (the cover is an image of a star being born --...	Frank Abate word2mine	Jan 22, 2003 11:37 am
244	The point that Fred S makes below in reply to something Barry P asked is a very important one re understanding how ref publications are compiled, and how they...	Frank Abate word2mine	Jan 23, 2003 9:19 am
245	One exception to Frank's comment that "good, solid reference data will NEVER be free" is the Cambridge University Press Dictionaries Online site...	Paul Heacock pheacock@...	Jan 23, 2003 3:40 pm
246	I was unaware of the availability of the Cambridge UP Dictionaries Online. Thanks, Paul, for the notice, cc'd below. There ARE several excellent dictionaries...	Frank Abate word2mine	Jan 24, 2003 4:56 pm
247	Hello. I am selling the following domain names, very cheaply, at the site where I purchased them -- www.registerfly.com. If you are interested in any, let me...	bkipfer <bkipfer@...> bkipfer	Jan 24, 2003 5:44 pm
248	One of the criticisms made of the second edition (2001) of Dictionaries: the Art and Craft of Lexicography is that the contents page lists only the chapter...	Sidney Landau slandau1755@...	Jan 25, 2003 5:25 pm
249	I just realized that I could simply include it as an attachment and you could download it. So here it is. Sidney Landau [Non-text portions of this message have...	Sidney Landau slandau1755@...	Jan 25, 2003 6:32 pm
250	Did anyone else NOT get the attachment? It didn't come through on my machine. Wendalyn Nichols...	Wendalyn Nichols wendalyn@...	Jan 25, 2003 7:24 pm
251	It's me again. Apparently we cannot send attachments. Of course, I can send them individually so if anyone wants to email me with their own email address, I...	Sidney Landau slandau1755@...	Jan 25, 2003 7:32 pm
252	I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me a copy to my e-mail address, philip@.... Thanks, Philip Trauring...	Philip Trauring trauring	Jan 25, 2003 11:13 pm
253	As Wendy, I also did not get any attachment or inclusion of the expanded Landau TOC. Yes, I want one, please. Frank...	Frank Abate word2mine	Jan 26, 2003 12:29 pm
254	The list is set to disallow attachments, as an anti-virus measure. We do have a webspace to distribute files to the list. If you go to: ...	Erin McKean editorverbatim	Jan 26, 2003 2:24 pm

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