======== Subject: Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:15 -0500 (CDT) *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, May 23, 2001* June 6th and July 4th will be the last times both Newsletters go out from the same listserver, more details on this as time goes on. . . [Given the votes being split very evenly between weekly and monthly, we are going to endeavor to present this Newsletter in both formats. We will try to set up two listservers by our 30th Anniversary on the 4th of July, and you will get both versions until/unless you send an unsubscribe message to the one you do not want to receive. 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Index Listings for Improved Files We posted a new and significantly improved 11th edition of: Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe21][7schwxxx.xxx]2402 Nov 2000 Briefe aus der Schweiz, by Goethe [Goethe21][8schwxxx.xxx]2402 [This is a German Etext, the 7 bit file is without accents 8-bit is accented] Comments About Our New Files We still need some help with the Arabian Nights, please email me! We have started Lucy Fitch Perkins' "Twins" series, and if you can help us find more of these, we would certainly appreciate it. The series is a graduated set of readers used in schools a century ago. Index Listings for the New Files 16 new releases: [16 per week would make 832 per year] Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V3, by Richard Burton[31001xxx.xxx]3437 [These are in 7 and 8 bit unaccented and accented versions] [Filenames are x1001xx7.txt and .zip and x1001xx8.txt and .zip] [X will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f and g] [Full Title: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, Volumes 1 - 16] [Also listed under: [The Arabian Nights [A Thousand and One Nights. . .and. . .A Thousand and One Arabian Nights] Oct 2002 The Swiss Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [LFP #2][swtwnxxx.xxx]3497 Oct 2002 The Japanese Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins [LFP #1][jptwnxxx.xxx]3496 Oct 2002 The King of Ireland's Son, by Padraic Colum [kisonxxx.xxx]3495 Oct 2002 Bluebeard, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Kate Wiggin #20][blbrdxxx.xxx]3494 Oct 2002 Widger's Quotations from Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.[W5][dwqohxxx.xxx]3493 [Full Title: Widger's Quotations from the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.] Oct 2002 Homespun Tales, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[Wiggin #18][hspunxxx.xxx]3492 Oct 2002 Missy, by Dana Gatlin [missyxxx.xxx]3491 Oct 2002 The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie [Barrie #5][theacxxx.xxx]3490 Oct 2002 Fabre, Poet of Science, by G. V. (C. V.) Legros [fbrpsxxx.xxx]3489 Nov 2002 Music and Other Poems, by Henry van Dyke [HVD #6] [mscopxxx.xxx]3525 Dec 2002 Complete Life of Napoleon, V13, by Constant[NB#30][nc13vxxx.xxx]3580 Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V12, by Constant [NB#29][nc12vxxx.xxx]3579 Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V11, by Constant [NB#28][nc11vxxx.xxx]3578 Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V10, by Constant [NB#27][nc10vxxx.xxx]3577 Dec 2002 Private Life of Napoleon, V9, by Constant [NB#26][nc09vxxx.xxx]3576 If you sent in a file you don't see here, please let me know. *** IBM BREAKS DISK DENSITY BARRIER IBM disk technology researchers have broken what had been regarded as a fundamental limit in disk density, and the company's Travelstar product line of notebook hard disks can now be produced with densities up 25.7 billion bits a square inch; by 2003 IBM will be able to achieve disk density on the Travelstar line to 100 billion bits per square inch. With disk drive density doubling every 12 months, the technology is advancing even faster than the rate of Gordon Moore's celebrated "Moore's Law," which predicted a doubling of transistor density (and computer power) every 18 months.(New York Times 21 May 2001) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21DISK.html EUROPE: POLICE WANT TO MONITOR ALL NET TRAFFIC The European Home Office has proposed that ISPs and other network operators retain data on telecommunications usage, such as records of e-mail and Internet use, for seven years. The proposal would grant the police much greater power to intercept and study data communications. However, the proposal is meeting with stiff opposition from numerous groups across Europe. Opponents charge that the proposal places an undue responsibility on ISPs and other telecom companies. Moreover, opponents say the proposal challenges the privacy of citizens. "Europe has been at the forefront of protecting individual privacy--it would be tragic to turn it into a law enforcement directive," said David Banisar, deputy director of Privacy International. The United Kingdom's e-minister Patricia Hewitt has also voiced opposition to the proposal. To be implemented, the proposal must have the approval of both he European Council of Ministers and the full European Parliament. (ZDNet, 17 May 2001) NEW STUDY REPEATS ANTI-PRIVACY LEGISLATION MANTRA Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has released a report criticizing Congressional efforts to legislate privacy as an unnecessary task better left to the private sector. "Federal privacy regulations or legislation are unnecessary and...the private sector is more effective than government in this increasingly important area," concluded the report, "Keeping Big Brother From Watching You." Noting that the 107th Congress has already introduced 40 privacy bills, CAGW president Thomas A. 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Of course, it is likely that the vast majority of Web sites have not incorporated this mechanism. The World Wide Web Consortium, which has worked on P3P since 1997, says it will release its P3P version within six months and will pressure the world's 100 top Web sites to adopt P3P, building momentum for large-scale adoption. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 May 2001) SUNY ONLINE EDUCATION ENROLLMENT DOUBLES Second only to the University of Maryland in its number of online students, the State University of New York (SUNY) Learning Network boasts an array of more than 2,000 Internet-delivered courses for the fall. Last year, 25,814 students were enrolled in the classes, bankrolled by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and SUNY. Students pay $3,400 per year for the online classes, the same as a SUNY campus student minus campus fees. Students can also enroll through community and other colleges, often at lower prices. The Learning Network program began in 1995 and links learners to teachers at 53 educational institutions that combined will offer over 2,000 courses by this fall. (Associated Press, 18 May 2001) EUROPE GAINING GROUND ON INTERNET DOMINANCE European Internet growth is still steadily on the rise at the same time that growth in the U.S. online population seems to have leveled off, according to international research firm Ipsos-Reid. "Though the U.S. still by far has the largest single user base, non-Americans now outnumber Americans on the Internet by a clear margin," says the report. "Europe is poised to become the leader of the next Internet generation. With southern Europe finally catching up with Northern Europe in terms of Internet usage and Europe's greater acceptance of wireless applications, you have a potential Internet market that promises to be as, if not more important than America's." The U.S. share of global users shrank from 40% to 36% over the last year, and will continue to drop as the Internet grows far faster in other parts of the world. (InternetWeek 16 May 2001) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010516S0006 GATEWAY AND JUNO TO STOP PROMISING "FREE" INTERNET ACCESS Gateway and Juno Online Services have agreed with a Federal Trade Commission demand that the two companies make it clearer to customers and prospective customers that their offers of "free" Internet connections actually are not free at all. An FTC official said: "These so-called free Internet access offers were anything but. Information about fees was hidden in the fine print. The relevant conditions of any offer should be disclosed clearly and conspicuously so that consumers can make their purchases based on the facts." 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