🚀 go-pugleaf

This was originally a reply to a question about a free dictionary, but
the idea could be applied to UU activity as well:

>Anyone got any suggestions on how to get hold of a PD dictionary?

Set up a mail address to which people can send definitions, which will
put the definitions into a gopher tree (and a webster server).
Announce the address on Usenet.  On the gopher and webster servers,
announce the mail address and urge people to submit new definitions
for words there's no definition or the definition is less than perfect.
Publicize the project and the gopher and webster servers.

Gather a list of volunteers willing to write definitions for ten words
each.  Take a word list, then take ten random words from the list for
each volunteer, submit them to the volunteers and tell them to send
definitions to the mail address mentioned above.

Alternatively (easier), write a program to compute a hash from user's
email address which is then used as an index to a public word list,
and urge people to write definition to the word found by hashing their
email address.  Make the program so it suggests several alternatives.
Instead of a program distributed it could be a mail server or perhaps
a gopher server.  Publicize the program and project on Usenet, on the
GNU newsgroups, on the Gutenberg mailing list, on
comp.infosystems.wais etc. and write a description of it to the next
GNU bulletin.  Consider also other places to publicize the project.

//Jyrki