At 09:43 24/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:

We cannot allow spelling bots unless:

A. The bot is registered B. The bot draws from an approved list

A word like /thier/ can safely be changed to "their", since it's almost always a misspelling. However, there are many misspellings which can't be automatically corrected.

I don't mind HUMANS whiling away their time doing a bit of spell-check work; I do it myself, when I want to relax.

But if a machine can do it, then it probably shouldn't be done as a logged-in contributor (robot or "bot"). Rather, let's have our zealous programming staff write a custom spell-check program.

Uncle Ed _________________

When I get my search engine converted to the wiki db, it comes with a moderated spell checker the result should be a fast search and a table full of typos for bots and humanbots to play with.

Archivist

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