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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: I think this could be an interesting challenge!
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:39:46 -0700
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/24/2026 3:43 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>
>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 3/22/2026 1:29 PM, John McCue wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------------------
>>>>>> Word Source
>>>>>> ---------------------
>>>>>> There's a huge unsorted word list here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://limewire.com/?referrer=pq7i8xx7p2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...which you can develop against.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I need to create an ID to get the list ?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think so.
>>>>
>>>> It didn't give me an ID or login when I uploaded them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just now uploaded it here:  https://filebin.net/kkkyqw1ritefnw0f
>>>
>>> A fucking web page.  How about a link to a plain text file
>>> that has just the words?
>>
>> Just fucking click on the fucking file name.
>
> Not everyone reads usenet with a browser or a news client
> that understands hypertext or the hypertext transfer protocol.
>
> I would generally have used 'wget' to fetch, so if you'd
> specified:
>
> https://filebin.net/kkkyqw1ritefnw0f/words_unsorted.txt
>
> That may have been slightly better, but it appears that
> filebin interposes a warning screen and forces a second
> click, so wget may also have failed.

Thank you for this.  It's nice to know someone here
understands.