2. YPP SC PCTB client dictionary server
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-This server maintains the master database of character and island name
-images, which is used for the commodity screen OCR and also for
-determining your island name.
-
-By default, we ask the server for an updated set of dictionaries every
-time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by invoking
-rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only.
+This server maintains the master copies of various databases which are
+used to assist the OCR process. Collectively I call these
+`dictionaries'. There is a dictionary of character and island name
+images, of new commodity names, and of notable known OCR
+misrecognitions. These are used for the commodity screen OCR, for
+determining your island name, and for checking whether commodities not
+found on the PCTB server are real.
+
+By default, we ask the server for appropriate updated dictionaries
+every time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by
+invoking rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only.
If we find a screen display we don't understand, we will ask you about
it by popping up a window which allows you to select the island (or
The dictionary submission feature, and whether to quote your pirate
identity, is exposed in and controllable from the dictionary update
GUI, for maximum visibility. The settings in the GUI are not recorded
-anywhere from one run to the next; instead the initial settings in the
-GUI come from the --dict-* privacy options. See the table of options
-in the README for details.
+anywhere from one run to the next. If you want to consistently
+increase your privacy setting, use the --dict-* privacy options.
+See the table of options in the README for details.
Having said all that, please do not upload data to the PCTB server
without also participating in dictionary sharing. If you don't update
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I keep a permanent log of all the submissions, including date, time,
-submitting pirate or IP address, and YPP SC PCTB client version..
-This is so that I have enough information to go back and fix things if
-anything goes badly wrong (for example, if a particular client is
-broken).
+submitting pirate or IP address, and YPP SC PCTB client version.
+This is so that I have enough information to go back and fix the
+dictionary if anything goes badly wrong (for example, if a particular
+client is broken).
-My system probably also records your IP address when your client
-fetches new master dictionaries; those logs are used only for
+My rsync server (file server) also records your IP address when your
+client fetches new master dictionaries; those logs are used only for
debugging the rsync server (which also serves many other files), and
-they are routinely expired.
+they are routinely expired, currently after about two months.
The information about the source of a submissions doesn't appear in
the dictionaries as available for download, so other people won't
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