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From: grady@netcom.com (Grady Ward)
Subject: Moby Lexicons placed in PUBLIC DOMAIN
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Hello,  I am the compiler/drudge/lexicographer who
collected the various word lists known as the Moby Lexicons.

They include Moby Words,
Moby Hyphenator, Moby Part-of-Speech, Moby Pronunciator,
Moby Thesaurus, and Moby Language.

I have been licensing them for fees ranging from $100 to
$600 each for six years now and it is time to make this collection
available to people who don't have that kind of money.

Therefore, as of June 1, 1996 I am placing all the various works
irrevocably into the PUBLIC DOMAIN.  You may acquire, sell, give away,
put on servers, distribute, extract, transform, without limitation
these works for any purpose whatsoever.

For the sake of convenience I will send you a copy of these works
on a MS-DOS formatted ZIP disk for $25. Or you can wait for them
to be posted at whatever site who will host them to download
for free.  The total quantity of compressed data is on the order
of 30 Mb. This includes SCRABBLE(R) lists, the most comprehensive
rhyming dictionary in English, and a huge pronouncing dictionary
only dwarfed by the million-entry thesaurus. If you are a computational
word nut, then you will likely want to play with this stuff.

To take advantage of the ZIP disk offer (which I will rather
arbitrarily terminate in a month or so) mail your check or MO
in US dollars to:

Grady Ward
3449 Martha Ct.
Arcata, CA 95521

+1 707 826 7715

grady@netcom.com
grady@northcoast.com

This post/offer will NOT be repeated; thanks to everyone to
supporting the lexicography effort for the last six years!

I hope someone who might not otherwise have access to these
materials finds them useful.

(Apologies for the quasi-commercial nature of this message, but
as the contents indicate, it is self-limiting.)

Grady Ward
