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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (12578)	8/4/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Merriam Webster Web Site Stolen Newsbytes - August 04, 1998 20:20 %ONLINE %HKG V%NEWSBYTES P%NBYT HONG KONG, 1998 AUG 5 (NB) -- By Neil Taylor, I.T. Daily. Budding authors around the world have been dismayed to find their access to Merriam Webster's free online dictionary and thesaurus has been cut off. But unlike many recent cases of unobtainable Web servers, this case had nothing to do with hackers or buggy software. The leading American English dictionary's Web site has been stolen. According to the Merriam Webster Web team, last Thursday, July 30th, burglars broke into the offices of the Springfield, Massachusetts-based Miriam-Webster's Online and stole their Web servers. In a statement posted to the site, the team said "We've managed to restore limited capacity, but we need to obtain new hardware from our suppliers before we can return to full service. We hope to have the entire site active again in a few days." The site currently contains little more than their Word Of The Day section and its archives, but when the site does come back online, you can find it at m-w.com . Reported by Newsbytes News Network newsbytes.com . 18:54 CST (19980804/WIRES ONLINE/)