Hi Gene, Don't worry about it. But I gather from what you said that you are still able to use the dict command successfully, even though www.dict.org does not respond to your direct probes. If that's the case, perhaps that URL only resp;onds to the servers on the end users' hosts. That would mean the problem is still on my setup. Chuck -- Chuck in Ghent, northeast of Hudson on the Hudson. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup