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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Sept, 1998
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:31:37 -0500 (CDT)
This is he Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Wednesday, September 2, 1998
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**********This coming Tuesday is International Literacy Day!**********
September 8 is International Literacy Day, give someone the gift of an
assortment of Etexts on floppy disk; encourage them to pass on copies!
In honor of this we are posting more files this month than ever before
. . .from several different official release months, and when, finally
I get a chance to take a deep breath, I will post the new Shakespeare!
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We also got a very nice writeup in the major French paper, Le Monde:
http://www.lemonde.fr/dossiers/utopies/gut.html
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We are scheduled to be listed in the "WIRED 25" in November's issue.
***Requests for Assistance***
We need a non- translated copy of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales,
something published before 1924. . . . Please contact me and also cc:
Thomas Broch-Nielsen <histbn@stud.hum.aau.dk>
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Looking for a lecture Henry James delivered, and which was issued
in a magazine named Pall Mall Gazette (or something like that).
Paulo Costa Galvco
prgalvao@rio.com.br
Revista Brasil de Literatura
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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Now, in a totally confusing order of months, here are ALL the December
Etexts, 23 of the October Etexts, and 5 of the January, 1999 Etexts.
**You may have to remind yourself when getting them to use /etext99**
[This is totally my [Michael Hart] fault, as I tend to get ahead of
myself on occasion, while not yet getting the new Shakespeare posted.]
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
Dec 1998 Laches, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator [Plato #6][lachsxxx.xxx]1584
Dec 1998 Options, by O Henry [O Henry #2][optnsxxx.xxx]1583
Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, NT [ xxx.xxx]1582
Dec 1998 Reserved for Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, all[ xxx.xxx]1581
Dec 1998 Charmides, by Plato, B. Jowett, Translator #5 [crmdsxxx.xxx]1580
Dec 1998 Lysis, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #4 [lysisxxx.xxx]1579
Dec 1998 Aucassin and Nicolete, Tr. by Andrew Lang[Lang#10][aucncxxx.xxx]1578
Dec 1998 The Grey Room, by Eden Phillpotts [gryrmxxx.xxx]1577
Dec 1998 The Life of Phineas T. Barnum, by Joel Benton [ptbnmxxx.xxx]1576
Dec 1998 The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson[prstyxxx.xxx]1575
Dec 1998 Historic Girls, by E. S. Brooks [hgrlsxxx.xxx]1574
Dec 1998 Frank's Campaign/Farm & Camp, Horatio Alger Jr. #9[frcmpxxx.xxx]1573
Dec 1998 Timaeus, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #3 [tmeusxxx.xxx]1572
Dec 1998 Critias, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #2 [critixxx.xxx]1571
Dec 1998 The Power of Concentration, By Theron Q. Dumont [prconxxx.xxx]1570
Dec 1998 The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac[HdB#51][tlotvxxx.xxx]1569
Dec 1998 Poems, by William Ernest Henley[William Henley #2][pmwehxxx.xxx]1568
Dec 1998 Poems, by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot [Eliot #3][tsepmxxx.xxx]1567
Dec 1998 The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler[teommxxx.xxx]1566
Dec 1998 Last Days of Pompeii, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton [tldopxxx.xxx]1565
Dec 1998 Life of Johnson by [James] Boswell [ljnsnxxx.xxx]1564
Dec 1998 The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice LeBlanc [cstprxxx.xxx]1563
Dec 1998 Little Rivers, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke #4][ltrvsxxx.xxx]1562
Dec 1998 Pagan & Christian Creeds, by Edward Carpenter [pchrcxxx.xxx]1561
Dec 1998 The San Francisco Calamity, Charles Morris, Ed. [sfclmxxx.xxx]1560
Dec 1998 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, By Balzac #50[adpapxxx.xxx]1559
Dec 1998 The Profits of Religion, by Upton Sinclair [prfrlxxx.xxx]1558
Dec 1998 Men of Iron, by Ernie Howard Pyle [femenxxx.xxx]1557
Dec 1998 The Marriage Contract, by de Honore de Balzac[#49][mrgctxxx.xxx]1556
Dec 1998 A Passion in the Desert, by Honore de Balzac [#48][apitdxxx.xxx]1555
Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac [Honore de Balzac #47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554
Dec 1998 The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac[HdB#46][hmstpxxx.xxx]1553
Dec 1998 Most Interesting Stories of All Nations, Hawthorne[misanxxx.xxx]1552
Dec 1998 A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin [#9][cthrcxxx.xxx]1551
Dec 1998 A Lady of Quality, by Frances Hodgson Burnett [#8][ladyqxxx.xxx]1550
Dec 1998 Commentary on Galatians, Martin Luther [mlgltxxx.xxx]1549
Please note that we have reserved 1500-1548 for Shakepeare, new editions.
This reserves the rest of the October Etexts and all the November Etexts.
Thus the current releases are being labeled as being from December, 1998,
and January, 1999.
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 2][32blhxxx.xxx]1499
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 1][31blhxxx.xxx]1498
Oct 1998 The Republic by Plato, Tr. Benjamin Jowett/see 150[repub11x.xxx]1497
Oct 1998 Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #5][msprsxxx.xxx]1496
Oct 1998 The Golf Course Mystery, by Chester K. Steele [glfmsxxx.xxx]1495
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 2[2lotjxxx.xxx]1494
Oct 1998 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume 1[1lotjxxx.xxx]1493
Oct 1998 The Life of Columbus, [in his own words] by Hale [tloccxxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang [Lang #9] [letdaxxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey Fourth Reader[McGuffey Reader #2][4nmcgxxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 The New McGuffey First Reader [McGuffey Reader #1][1nmcgxxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 True Story of Christopher Columbus, by E.S. Brooks[ttsccxxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx]1487
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
and also
Jan 1999 Tamburlaine the Great PT 2, by Christopher Marlowe[tmbn2xxx.xxx]1589
Jan 1999 A Rogue's Life, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #9][rgslfxxx.xxx]1588
Jan 1999 The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #8][blkrbxxx.xxx]1587
Jan 1999 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins [W. Collins #7][mandwxxx.xxx]1586
Jan 1999 The Wrong Box, by Stevenson & Osbourne [RLS#40][wrngbxxx.xxx]1585
And now from Edupage:
PC PRICES PLUMMET
The price for a home PC, which broke the $1,000 mark just 18 months ago, is
now tumbling below $400 -- well within the reach of the average U.S. family.
Micro Center, an Ohio-based chain of 13 stores, began selling a $399 PC
under the Power Spec label earlier this month, and PrecisionTec LLC, a PC
maker based in California, has introduced its Gazelle machine for the same
price. The low prices don't include computer monitors, which usually start
at about $150. Analysts at ZD Market Intelligence are saying the low prices
will spark a surge of PC-buying among households with incomes of less than
$30,000 -- a segment that so far has been difficult to reach -- and that PC
penetration should reach close to 50% of U.S. households by the end of the
year. (AP 21 Aug 98)
SEC SCOLDS COMPANIES ON Y2K DISCLOSURE
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement last week chiding
companies for their lack of candor in disclosing Year 2000 problems to their
stockholders. "While the number of companies disclosing year 2000 issues
has increased dramatically, many companies are not providing the quality of
disclosure that we believe investors expect." The SEC has posted a document
on its Web site, <http://www.sec.gov>, that compares "meaningful Y2K
disclosure" with "boilerplate Y2K disclosure," but an agency task force
recently found that most companies have opted for the latter, just inserting
some meaningless legalese into their financial reports. (Los Angeles Times
3 Aug 98)
THE BLOATWARE DEBATE
A 100-company survey by Standish Group International found that 45% of a
software application's features are never used, 19% rarely used, 16 %
sometime used, 13% often used, and 7% always used; yet, in spite of the
fact that most of an application is seldom used, software gets bigger all
the time. For example, Windows went from 3M lines of code (Windows 3.1) to
14M lines (Windows 95) to 18M (Windows 98). Booze, Allen & Hamilton chief
information officer Roger Walters is one of the people complaining now about
this "bloatware" phenomenon: "My problem is, I'm forced to upgrade all the
time -- not for functionality I want, but for features someone wanted for
me." But industry analyst Jeffrey Tarter defends the software makers by
noting: "I can't think of a single lite version of any product that has
ever succeeded. It may be inelegant and sluglike, but bloatware sells."
(Computerworld 10 Aug 98)
INTEL CATCHES FLAK FOR WEB ADVERTISING TACTICS
In an effort to sell higher-power computer chips, Intel is sponsoring an
"Intel Inside Optimized Content" program that encourages Web sites to use
dense, complicated graphics that slow down a computer's processor when the
pages are downloading from the Internet. An accompanying message tells the
user that a Pentium II microprocessor would speed up the process. Intel
normally reimburses PC makers 50% of their Web-based advertising costs if
the ad sports an "Intel Inside" logo, but ups its contribution to 75% if the
site uses complicated graphics and includes wording that says the page could
be better viewed using a Pentium II processor. "It's a hell of an
incentive," says one Web editor. "PC companies are going to advertise on
sites where they pay only 25% of the costs, as opposed to sites where they
have to pay for half of the ad." But the innovative tactic has raised the
ire of some Web site owners: "What they're asking us to do is turn our
sites into a demonstration of their products," says a senior VP at IDG,
publisher of Computerworld magazine. "We're going to optimize our content
for our readers, not for Intel." (Tampa Tribune 17 Aug 98)
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Subject: Etext #1492 & #1500, Project Gutenberg Newsletter, September, 1998
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:11:14 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, August 5, 1998
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New sites going up in Brazil and Australia, as below: Africa needed!!
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We should be posting Etext #1500 in a few weeks, and we would like your
suggestions for possible titles to use for #1500. One suggestion is to
start our new Public Domain Edition of Shakespeare then, with #1500 but
I had #1600 in mind for that, to coincide with the average dates of his
major publications, but that is not at all cast in stone or electrons--
as we have requests for some of the dates surrounding #1600 as follows:
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 2 [2drvbxxx.xxx]1610
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, O.T. Part 1 [1drvbxxx.xxx]1609
The Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, N.T. [3drvbxxx.xxx]1582
Holy Bible, Douay Rheims Version, Both Testaments [0drvbxxx.xxx]1581
So. . .your suggestions would be MOST welcome, on these titles or on
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Ludendorff's Memoirs in German, we need help scanning and proofing.
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From: Siobhan Conway <cs672@greenwich.ac.uk>
Request for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ASAP
We would also love to post one, if we could
find a matching paper edition, pre-1923, to
any that might already be on the Net. . . .
Or we can start from scratch.
*
From: Michele Cintolo <cintolom@yahoo.com>
1) "The Innocent Abroad", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers
(Author's National Edition set), copyright 1869, 1897 & 1899 by The
American Publishing Company. copyright 1911 by Clara Gabrilowitsch. I
have vol I but need vol II.
2)"Roughing It", Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers Publishers (Author's
National Edition set), copyright 1871, 1899 by The American Publishing
Company, copyright 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens, copyright 1913 by Clara
Gabrilowitsch. Have vol I, need vol II.
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National Edition set), copyright 1873, 1899 by Samuel L. Clemens &
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Warner, copyright 1915 by Clara Gabrilowitsch & Susan Lee Warner. Have
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Correction on filename from last Newsletter:
Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bsshkxxx.xxx]1430
And now 36 Etexts for September. This is the third!! month we have been two
months ahead of schedule, an unprecedented feat for our PG volunteers in the
summertime, when we usually fall behind schedule a bit. My Congratulations!
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
Sep 1998 Chance, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #22][chancxxx.xxx]1476
Sep 1998 Gaudissart II, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #43][2gdsrxxx.xxx]1475
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac #42[1gdsrxxx.xxx]1474
Sep 1998 The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #2][bsntexxx.xxx]1473
Sep 1998 In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield[KM #2][inagpxxx.xxx]1472
Sep 1998 New Poems, by Francis Thompson[Francis Thompson#2][npbftxxx.xxx]1471
Sep 1998 Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by Keene [tfmehxxx.xxx]1470
Sep 1998 Poems, by Francis Thompson [pmbftxxx.xxx]1469
Sep 1998 History of England, James II> Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
Sep 1998 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1a][crmenxxa.xxx]1466
Sep 1998 Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens [#49][wrkgmxxx.xxx]1465
Sep 1998 Contributions to: All The Year Round, Dickens #48[allyrxxx.xxx]1464
Sep 1998 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by Gissing [ppohrxxx.xxx]1463
Sep 1998 Some Roundabout Papers, by Thackeray[Thackeray #3][rndbtxxx.xxx]1462
Sep 1998 A Legend of Montrose, by Walter Scott [W Scott #5][mntrsxxx.xxx]1461
Sep 1998 The Black Dwarf, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #4][bdwrfxxx.xxx]1460
Sep 1998 Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot #2[prfrkxxx.xxx]1459
Sep 1998 Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner [#5][dlarlxxx.xxx]1458
Sep 1998 Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #1][wldngxxx.xxx]1457
Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456
Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455
Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454
Sep 1998 The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #38][lkhstxxx.xxx]1453
Sep 1998 Native Life in South Africa, by Sol Plaatje [nlisaxxx.xxx]1452
Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451
Sep 1998 Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter #4][plynaxxx.xxx]1450
Sep 1998 The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London[London #49][vlymnxxx.xxx]1449
Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Prince, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 3[iprncxxx.xxx]1447
Sep 1998 Perfect Behavior, by Donald Ogden Stewart [satire][pbhvrxxx.xxx]1446
Sep 1998 Aeroplanes, by J. S. Zerbe [aerozxxx.xxx]1445
Sep 1998 The Voice of the City, by O Henry [O Henry #1][vcctyxxx.xxx]1444
Sep 1998 Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #37][2poetxxx.xxx]1443
Sep 1998 Kingdom of the Blind, by E. Phillips Oppenheim #2[kblndxxx.xxx]1442
Sep 1998 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner #4[aafrmxxx.xxx]1441
and some from October already:
We will be posting at least two Etexts on or by Columbus,
as the 12th October Etext and as Etext #1492. . . .
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1487
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
***
>From Edupage:
INFORMATION AGE HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Asked about the impact of computers and the Internet on society, Vanderbilt
University management professor Donna Hoffman says: "Will we really
transform society through the use of computers and the Internet? Well, the
jury is still out. I certainly think the potential is there, but it will be
realized only if we can get access in the hands of everyone. Otherwise, we
are not likely to see revolutionary changes. And we will still have the
schisms and chasms in society where there will be sectors of society in
which people are able to partake of the wonderful riches online, and at the
same time other groups are effectively excluded. I don't think there will
be much evidence of the transforming powers found in creating new sources of
value until we have people online who we never thought would come online.
If we're serious about change, we need to be thinking of getting entire
countries -- the developing countries and societies -- online. (Exec Sum 98)
MIT'S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL SAYS NO MORE PAPER APPLICATIONS
MIT's Sloan School of Management says it will no longer accept paper
applications, opting instead for a fully electronic application process.
School officials say the move will save thousands of dollars in processing,
printing and postage costs, plus hundreds of hours of staff time. The
school will, however, stick with snail-mail for the back end of the process
-- acceptance and rejection letters will be shipped via the U.S. Postal
Service. (Investor's Business Daily 4 Aug 98)
FCC TO HOLD HEARINGS ON DISPARITIES IN TECHNOLOGY ACCESS
The Federal Communications Commission will hold hearings this fall to try to
determine why minority groups are less likely to have telephone service or
own a computer than white families. A U.S. Commerce Department reports
indicates that 96% of white households have basic phone service, compared to
about 86% of black households and Hispanic households; similarly about 41%
of white families own a computer, compared to about 19% of black and
Hispanic families. FCC chairman Bill Kennard says, "Does this gap in access
to technology matter? You bet it does. How can you look for a job without
a phone? How can you demonstrate that you have the skills to compete if you
don't know which side of a diskette goes in first?" (AP 3 Aug 98)
[More on the same story, with a little better statistics: I counted as one]
STUDY SHOWS WIDENING GAP IN COMPUTER OWNERSHIP
A new study by the U.S. Commerce Department shows that PC ownership among
all Americans grew by 52% between 1994 and 1997, with a penetration of 36.6%
of U.S. households. But although penetration among blacks and Hispanics
grew faster than the overall rate, the disparity between them and white
households actually widened during that period. At the end of 1997, 40.8%
of non-Hispanic white households owned a PC, compared to 19.4% of Hispanic
and 19.3% of African-American households, a gap of 21.5%. In 1994, the
Commerce Department reported a gap of 16.8%. The study also found that
whites were much more likely to subscribe to an online service than either
blacks or Hispanics. "The study exposes a growing problem in our economy,
one that must be taken seriously: too many Americans are not able to take
part in the growing digital economy," says Commerce Secretary William Daley.
"The growing trend of information 'haves' and 'have-nots' is alarming."
(Miami Herald 31 Jul 98)
RIOTS FOLLOW BRAZIL'S SALE OF NATIONAL PHONE SYSTEM
Brazil's national phone company Telebras has been sold for almost $19
billion in the largest privatization deal in Latin American history -- a
deal dominated by Spain's Telefonica, Portugal's Telecom, and the U.S.
company MCI. Police used tear gas, batons, and a water cannon to control
thousands of angry demonstrators fearful that foreign owners of phone
services will ignore the needs of the Brazilian poor. (Washington Post 30
Jul 98)
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Subject: Project Gutenberg July Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: me@prairienet.org
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:18:19 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for July 1998
Our 28th Internet Fourth of July! Congratulations to a
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Have We Given Away A Trillion Dollars In Etexts Yet???
This first week of July, 1998, marks the completion of
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Declaration of Independence, with a goal to present to
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Aug 1998 Woman and Labour, by Olive Schreiner [Olive's #3][wmlbrxxx.xxx]1440
Aug 1998 Dreams, by Olive Schreiner [Olive Schreiner #2][drmosxxx.xxx]1439
Aug 1998 No Name, by Wilkie Collins [#6 by Wilkie Collins][nnamexxx.xxx]1438
Aug 1998 Juana by Honore de Balzac[#36 by Honore de Balzac][juanaxxx.xxx]1437
Aug 1998 A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo [vygabxxx.xxx]1436
Aug 1998 Miscellaneous Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #47][mspcdxxx.xxx]1435
Aug 1998 Essays, by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #7][esyamxxx.xxx]1434
Aug 1998 The Red Inn, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #35][rdinnxxx.xxx]1433
Aug 1998 Seraphita, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #34][sraphxxx.xxx]1432
Aug 1998 Trooper Peter Halket, by Olive Schreiner [trptrxxx.xxx]1431
Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bstshxxx.xxx]1430
Aug 1998 The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield [KM #1][gprtyxxx.xxx]1429
Aug 1998 La Grenadiere, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #33][grndrxxx.xxx]1428
Aug 1998 A Drama on the Seashore, by Balzac [de Balzac #32][seshrxxx.xxx]1427
Aug 1998 The Recruit, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #31][recrtxxx.xxx]1426
Aug 1998 El Verdugo, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #30][vrdugxxx.xxx]1425
Aug 1998 Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #1][rkrntxxx.xxx]1424
Aug 1998 No Thoroughfare, by Dickens [#47] & Collins [#5] [nothoxxx.xxx]1423
Aug 1998 Going into Society, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#46][gisocxxx.xxx]1422
Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy by Charles Dickens [CD #45][mlrlgxxx.xxx]1421
Aug 1998 London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes [lndwdxxx.xxx]1420
Aug 1998 Mugby Junction, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #44][mgjncxxx.xxx]1419
Aug 1998 Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves [csentxxx.xxx]1418
Aug 1998 Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #29][ssoilxxx.xxx]1417
Aug 1998 Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, by Charles Dickens [#43][mlldgxxx.xxx]1416
Aug 1998 Doctor Marigold, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #42][drmrgxxx.xxx]1415
Aug 1998 Somebody's Luggage, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#41][smlggxxx.xxx]1414
Aug 1998 Tom Tiddler's Ground, by Charles Dickens [CD #40][ttgndxxx.xxx]1413
Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx]1412
Aug 1998 Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #28][dmspcxxx.xxx]1411
Aug 1998 The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac [#27][lunacxxx.xxx]1410
Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx]1409
Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx]1408
Aug 1998 A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens [CD #39][amftsxxx.xxx]1407
Aug 1998 Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Dickens #38[pocepxxx.xxx]1406
Aug 1998 The Collection of Antiquities, by Balzac [HDB #26][clntqxxx.xxx]1405
and two for September
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Sep 1998 Kingdom of the Blind, by E. Phillips Oppenheim #2[kblndxxx.xxx]1442
Sep 1998 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner #4[aafrmxxx.xxx]1441
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Subject: June Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:47:20 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June, 1998
We have now completed 14% of our 10,000 Etext goal. . .
and selected Great Expectations as #1400, Anna Karenina
as #1399, and Tarzan the Untamed as #1401, hopefully we
will always have something for everyone to read.
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Geof Pawlicki has purchased a set of O Henry, as below. If you would
like any of these to work on and/or to keep, all you have to do is to
pay the shipping. [geof@netcom.com]
These are mostly collections titled after one story in the collection.
The Whirligigs
Cabbages and Kings
The Trimmed Lamp
Sixes and Sevens
Options
Rolling Stones
Strictly Business
Heart of the West
The Voice of the City
The Four Million
Roads of Destiny
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Here are the 36 July Etexts for 1998. The Federalist Papers tops the list to
commemorate the 27th Anniversary of the first Project Gutenberg Etext, the US
Declaration of Independence. Since we are currently two months ahead of this
year's schedule, we are posting most of these books in June, so they would be
currently arriving at the best time for people to include them in some of the
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10 years at Project Gutenberg. We hope you will find them enlightening.
These Etexts are from http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
Our Thanks to The Constitution Society for Providing This Etext!
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Jul 1998 The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Jay & Madison [federxxx.xxx]1404
Jul 1998 A Start in Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #25][stlifxxx.xxx]1403
Jul 1998 Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley [wtbbgxxx.xxx]1402
Jul 1998 Tarzan the Untamed, by Edgar Rice Burroughs[TARZ7][tarz7xxx.xxx]1401
Jul 1998 Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#38][grexpxxx.xxx]1400
Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
Jul 1998 Dore Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward[dorelxxx.xxx]1398
Jul 1998 The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney[ruinsxxx.xxx]1397
Jul 1998 Rienzi, last of the Roman Tribunes, by E. B.Lytton[rienzxxx.xxx]1396
Jul 1998 Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang [Lang #8] [ltlitxxx.xxx]1395
Jul 1998 The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #37] [hlytrxxx.xxx]1394
Jul 1998 Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough [mrvygxxx.xxx]1393
Jul 1998 The Seven Poor Travellers, by Charles Dickens[#36][svprtxxx.xxx]1392
Jul 1998 Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate D. Wiggin[#7][pnliexxx.xxx]1391
Jul 1998 The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister [jmyjnxxx.xxx]1390
Jul 1998 Gobseck, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #24][gbsekxxx.xxx]1389
Jul 1998 Padre Ignacio, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #7] [igncoxxx.xxx]1388
Jul 1998 Mother, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #6] [mothrxxx.xxx]1387
Jul 1998 Lady Baltimore, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #5] [lbaltxxx.xxx]1386
Jul 1998 Lin McLean, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #4] [lmclnxxx.xxx]1385
Jul 1998 The Ayrshire Legatees, by John Galt [John Galt #3][ayrlgxxx.xxx]1384
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 3 [Meredith #5] [pmgm3xxx.xxx]1383
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 2 [Meredith #4] [pmgm2xxx.xxx]1382
Jul 1998 Poems by George Meredith - Volume 1 [Meredith #3] [pmgm1xxx.xxx]1381
Jul 1998 The Two Brothers, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #23][brthrxxx.xxx]1380
Jul 1998 A Straight Deal, by Owen Wister [Owen Wister #3] [strdlxxx.xxx]1379
Jul 1998 The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White #3[fprntxxx.xxx]1378
Jul 1998 The Talisman, by Walter Scott[Sir Walter Scott #3][tlsmnxxx.xxx]1377
Jul 1998 The Little White Bird, by J.M. Barrie [Barrie #4][tlwbdxxx.xxx]1376
Jul 1998 New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin 7[tncorxxx.xxx]1375
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
and here are the first 8 we have scheduled for August:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Aug 1998 Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryat [Marryat #1][mmrdyxxx.xxx]1412
Aug 1998 Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #28][dmspcxxx.xxx]1411
Aug 1998 The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac [#27][lunacxxx.xxx]1410
Aug 1998 The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell [#1][sofrexxx.xxx]1409
4
Aug 1998 The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White [tnhosxxx.xxx]1408
Aug 1998 A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens [CD #39][amftsxxx.xxx]1407
Aug 1998 Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Dickens #38[pocepxxx.xxx]1406
Aug 1998 The Collection of Antiquities, by Balzac [HDB #26][clntqxxx.xxx]1405
>From Edupage:
SENATE PASSES ONLINE COPYRIGHT EXTENSION
The Senate unanimously approved the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which
offers the same protection to online computer software, music, movies and
written works that they enjoy in more tangible form. In a key provision,
the legislation exempts libraries and online services from prosecution for
copyright violations committed by patrons and customers. Individuals who
violate copyrights for financial gain will be liable for $1 million in fines
and up to 10 years in prison. (Wall Street Journal 15 May 98)
INTERNET GROWTH
A study by the U.S. Commerce Department ( http://ecommerce.gov/ ) says that
traffic on the Internet is doubling every hundred days and predicts that
electronic commerce will grow to $300 billion a year by 2002. (USA Today 16
Apr 96) [So. . .anyone who says they can make the Internet 100 time faster,
will have to deal with the fact that traffice with double as fast as they do
any doubling of the speed. Don't expect any real speedups. Michael Hart]
[Note Well: This means traffice is multiplying by 10 every year. . . .
When you listen to those people promising to make the Internet run 100
time faster in 10 years, ask them if the Internet won't be slowing down
because they aren't proposing increasing the speed as fast as traffic.
None of them are saying they could possibly make the Internet handle
100 times more traffic every year. . . . This is smoke and mirrors.
ECONOMIST PREDICTS Y2K PROBLEM WILL CAUSE RECESSION
In an op-ed piece, Edward Yardeni, chief economist and managing director of
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell says that problems arising from the Year 2000
computer glitch could cause a major recession, as businesses fail and
government agencies become incapable of delivering basic services, including
tax collection, welfare payments, national defense and air traffic control:
"The likely recession could be at least as bad as the one during 1973-74,
which was caused mostly by a disruption in the supply of oil. Information,
stored and manipulated by computers, is as vital as oil for running modern
economies. If information is harder to obtain, markets will allocate and
use resources inefficiently. Market participants will be forced to spend
more time and money obtaining information that was previously available at
little or no cost... Furthermore, a 2000 recession is bound to be
deflationary. The U.S. may experience a $1 trillion drop in nominal GDP and
a $1 trillion loss in stock market capitalization." (Wall Street Journal 4
May 98) [and you heard it here first, years ago. . .mh]
NEW DOS IS YEAR 2000-COMPLIANT
IBM has launched a new PC DOS 2000 that automatically corrects the two-digit
dates that threaten to befuddle older computer systems, and also supports
the European Monetary Union's new euro currency symbol -- a management
problem that could prove even more troublesome for European businesses than
the Y2K problem. According to recent research, there are between 120
million and 150 million people who still use DOS on their desktop machines.
"We believe about half of those are business users," says a manager at IBM's
Network Computing Software division. That figure doesn't include users of
Microsoft Windows 3.1, which includes DOS as a component. (InternetWeek 27
May 98)
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Subject: May Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 10:00:06 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May, 1998
For the first time in years we are two months ahead of schedule,
having completed the first releases of all the June Etexts. The
list is appended below, with the first 6 July Etexts, since this
is being prepared on May 6th.
My thanks to all who have helped us get this far!
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Subject: Ludendorff's War Memoirs
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Here is the index of the 42 new Etexts:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
This file has just been added retroactively
Feb 1998 North American Species of Cactus, by John Coulter [nasocxxx.xxx]1221
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
Jun 1998 When the World Shook, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #3][wtwshxxx.xxx]1368
Jun 1998 Findelkind, by Louise de la Ramee ["Ouida"] [fndkdxxx.xxx]1367
Jun 1998 The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade [chrthxxx.xxx]1366
Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, by Appleton[25tomxxx.xxx]1364
Jun 1998 Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters, Victor Appleton[24tomxxx.xxx]1363
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton[23tomxxx.xxx]1362
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon, by Victor Appleton[16tomxxx.xxx]1361
Jun 1998 Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley[hstlexxx.xxx]1360
Jun 1998 Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield[bhnatxxx.xxx]1359
Jun 1998 Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson [Tennyson #3][enchrxxx.xxx]1358
Jun 1998 Madame Firmiani, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#19][frmnixxx.xxx]1357
Jun 1998 The Cruise of the Cachalot, by Frank T. Bullen [cchltxxx.xxx]1356
Jun 1998 The Underground City by Jules Verne[Jules Verne#7][ucityxxx.xxx]1355
Jun 1998 Chronicles of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery #6][avnlexxx.xxx]1354
Jun 1998 Off on a Comet, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #7][cometxxx.xxx]1353
Jun 1998 An Old Maid, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #18][omaidxxx.xxx]1352
Jun 1998 Chignecto Isthmus; First Settlers, Howard Trueman [chgntxxx.xxx]1351
Jun 1998 The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #17][ctrdrxxx.xxx]1350
Jun 1998 Russia, by Donald Mackenzie Wallace [rsdmwxxx.xxx]1349
Jun 1998 A Master's Degree, by Margaret Hill McCarter [amsdgxxx.xxx]1348
Jun 1998 A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson, by Edouard le Roy[anphbxxx.xxx]1347
Jun 1998 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx [mar18xxx.xxx]1346
Jun 1998 The Vicar of Tours, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#16][vcrtrxxx.xxx]1345
Jun 1998 Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan, Balzac [#15][sdpdcxxx.xxx]1344
Jun 1998 Bureaucracy, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #14][brcrcxxx.xxx]1343
Jun 1998 Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen [Austen #8][pandpxxx.xxx]1342
Jun 1998 The Altruist in Politics, by Benjamin Cardozo [ltpltxxx.xxx]1341
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde [Accents] [Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxh.xxx]1340
Not done!
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde[No Accents][Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxx.xxx]1339
Jun 1998 Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #20]slpwlxxx.xxx]1338
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Sydney Waterlow [Percy Bysshe Shelley][wshlyxxx.xxx]1337
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Francis Thompson[Percy Bysshe Shelley][tshlyxxx.xxx]1336
Jun 1998 The Ancien Regime, by Charles Kingsley[Kingsley#5][anrgmxxx.xxx]1335
Jun 1998 Paul Kelver by Jerome K. Jerome [JeromeKJerome#13][pklvrxxx.xxx]1334
Jun 1998 R F Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang[rfmurxxx.xxx]1333
And since you will probably receive this around the 6th, here are 6 more. . .
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
And a few clippings from Edupage:
13 STATES TO FILE ANTITRUST SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT
Thirteen states are preparing to file a joint antitrust action against
Microsoft to prevent the company from shipping its new Windows 98 operating
system software. The attorneys general said they would rather have
coordinated a federal-state action against Microsoft, but that they were
concerned over the slower time frame within which federal government
operates. Microsoft plans to begin shipping Windows 98 to computer makers
next month and to release it to the general public in June, and the states
felt taking any action after the PC makers began installing it on their
machines would be significantly more complicated. Microsoft's VP for law
and corporate affairs says: "This case involves a fundamental principle for
us, the freedom of high-technology companies to continue to innovate on
behalf of our customers. Part of innovation has to be integration. We are
going to continue to integrate products." (New York Times 30 Apr 98)
DON'T BLOCK WINDOWS 98, SAY VENDORS
Twenty-six computer industry executives, including the chairmen of Intel
Corp., Micron Electronics, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer and
Hewlett-Packard, have signed a joint letter urging the Department of Justice
not to block the planned release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system.
"Interfering with the release of Windows 98 would drag down the entire
industry's efforts to deliver value to customers and returns to
shareholders," said the letter. The executives were careful to point out
that they weren't expressing "any opinion on the merits of the investigation
of Microsoft." The upgrade is expected to be shipped to computer makers in
mid-May and hit retail shelves on June 25. "The bottom line is, no computer
manufacturer can afford to harm their relationship with Microsoft," says the
president of the Software Publishers Association. "When Microsoft calls and
asks them to write a letter to Justice, they're hard-pressed not to." (Los
Angeles Times 1 May 98)
U S WEST TO OFFER TV, INTERNET ACCESS OVER PHONE LINES
For a cost "comparable" to the monthly fees charged by Cox Communications
(the primary cable company in Phoenix), U S West plans to offer its Phoenix
customers a video and data services package via "variable digital subscriber
lines," or VDSL. U S West says its service will include some 120 TV
channels and Internet access. In the past year, cable companies have begun
to offer Internet access as part of their monthly service, and an analyst
with International Data says, "If you're a phone company, you're going to
want to roll out a package of services that will blunt the attack from the
cable companies, which are trying to take away phone customers." (Wall
Street Journal 20 Apr 98)
SCIENTISTS DEMO INTERNET EXPRESS LANE
Scientists at two national laboratories demonstrated a new "differentiated
service" technology that gives certain types of electronic data higher
priority for transmission over the Internet. In the demo, two
streaming-video signals were sent -- one with a high-priority mark and one
without -- over an especially busy Internet route. The video marked
high-priority arrived at a speed of eight frames per second, versus one
frame per second for the unmarked video. Within a year, it may be possible
for research labs and universities that need more dependable Internet
connections to pay a higher cost for prioritized delivery. (Chronicle of
Higher Education 1 May 98)
[This is something we have written about before. . .it basically is like
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to sidings to wait for movies and sound files to pass on express lanes--
the idea is that it is more important to move huge audio/video files for
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Subject: April Project Gutenberg Volunteer's Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:58:25 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Volunteers' Newsletter for April
We are hopefully going to be getting a new influx of volunteers
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Subject: April-May Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:11:07 -0600 (CST)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April and May, 1998
We were set to announce that we were 1/8 of the way to our Etext
#10,000 in this Newsletter, but things went so well this month a
new announcement is in order. . .instead of just reaching 12.5%,
we have reached 13% of our goal as of today, 50 more Etexts than
we had planned to announce today.
The Gutenberg Volunteers have really been on fire lately, with a
record number of 80 Etexts being posted during the last 31 days,
thus requiring a combined Newsletter containing all the titles--
including the two more we posted since the end of March.
There will be our usual "Project Gutenberg Needs YOU!" message--
sometime this month, then, hopefully, we will still be ahead for
getting May done, and thus post the June Newsletter in May.
*
We have versions of Madame Bovary, The Waste Land, and Chroicles
of Avonlea ready for proofreading. . .as per your requests, just
email me to get them.
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We need to know who sent which files of Count of Monte Cristo,
so we can link up the proper copyright research to the files.
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From: straf@uiuc.edu
Subject: looking for book
> Book:
> History of a Free People - banned - unknown author
> estimated publication date: 1964
frind of mine howard is looking for above book I'd spend $20
*****
Here are the 81 files we have posted since the last Newsletter:
Mon Year Title Author # by Author Filename.Ext ####
May 1998 Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #4] [svnmnxxx.xxx]1306
May 1998 Enoch Soames, by Max Beerbohm [A New Version] [svnmnxxx.xxx]1306
May 1998 Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton, by Max Beerbohm[svnmnxxx.xxx]1306
May 1998 The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #11][blscoxxx.xxx]1305
May 1998 Project Gutenberg's Book of English Verse [Oxford][pgbevxxx.xxx]1304
May 1998 [Formerly:] The Oxford Book of English Verse [pgbevxxx.xxx]1304
May 1998 Bulchevy's Book of English Verse [pgbevxxx.xxx]1304
May 1998 The Scapegoat, by Hall Caine [scpgtxxx.xxx]1303
May 1998 Enemies of Books, by William Blades [nmybkxxx.xxx]1302 [ xxx.xxx]1302
May 1998 The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle[Carlyle#5][frrevxxx.xxx]1301
May 1998 Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey [Grey #7][prpsgxxx.xxx]1300
May 1998 The Heritage of the Sioux by B. M. Bower[Bower #6][hrtsuxxx.xxx]1299
May 1998 The Virginian, Horseman Of The Plains, Owen Wister[vrgnnxxx.xxx]1298
May 1998 The Iron Puddler, by James J. Davis [tirnpxxx.xxx]1297
Apr 1998 The Provost, by John Galt [This is THE John Galt] [prvstxxx.xxx]1296
Apr 1998 Ceres' Runaway by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #5][crnwyxxx.xxx]1295
Apr 1998 The Firm of Nucingen by Honore' de Balzac HDB #10][ncngnxxx.xxx]1294
Apr 1998 Sesame and Lilies, by John Ruskin [John Ruskin #2][seslixxx.xxx]1293
Apr 1998 The Way of the World by William Congreve [WC #4][wwrldxxx.xxx]1292
Apr 1998 Herodias, by Gustave Flaubert[Gustave Flaubert #3][hrodsxxx.xxx]1291
Apr 1998 Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert[Gustave Flaubert #2][slmmbxxx.xxx]1290
Apr 1998 Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens [CD #33-35][3ghstxxx.xxx]1289
Apr 1998 The Trial for Murder, Charles Dickens[Dickens #35][3ghstxxx.xxx]1289
Apr 1998 The Haunted House, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #34][3ghstxxx.xxx]1289
Apr 1998 The Signal Man, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #33][3ghstxxx.xxx]1289
Apr 1998 Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame[Kenneth Grahame #1][drdayxxa.xxx]1288
Apr 1998 The Poems of Goethe, Transl. Edgar Alfred Bowring [tpgthxxx.xxx]1287
Apr 1998 Tales of Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [a][tshakxxa.xxx]1286
Apr 1998 The Water Goats et. al., by Ellis Parker Butler [twgtsxxx.xxx]1285
Apr 1998 Tom Swift and His Air Scout, by Victor Appleton [22tomxxx.xxx]1284
Apr 1998 Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera by Victor Appleton[14tomxxx.xxx]1283
Apr 1998 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, by V. Appleton[07tomxxx.xxx]1282
Apr 1998 Tom Swift & His Aerial Warship, by Victor Appleton[18tomxxx.xxx]1281
Apr 1998 Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [sprvrxxx.xxx]1280
Apr 1998 Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, [Robert Burns #1][psorbxxx.xxx]1279
Apr 1998 Penelope's English Experiences by Kate D Wiggin #6[penexxxx.xxx]1278
Apr 1998 Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #9][mlmthxxx.xxx]1277
Apr 1998 The Rhythm of Life, by Alice Meynell [Meynell #4] [rhymlxxx.xxx]1276
Apr 1998 Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley[#4][alxscxxx.xxx]1275
Apr 1998 Martin Hyde the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield[mhydexxx.xxx]1274
Apr 1998 The Autobiography of a Slander, by Edna Lyall [autosxxx.xxx]1273
Apr 1998 The Riddle of the Rhine, by Victor LeFebure [rrhinxxx.xxx]1272
Apr 1998 Chemical Strategy in Peace and War/Victor LeFebure[rrhinxxx.xxx]1272
Apr 1998 Bygone Beliefs, by H. Stanley Redgrove [byblfxxx.xxx]1271
Apr 1998 In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken [ndwmnxxx.xxx]1270
Apr 1998 Soul of a Bishop, by H. G. Wells [H. G. Wells #15][sbshpxxx.xxx]1269
Apr 1998 The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne [Verne #6] [milndxxx.xxx]1268
Apr 1998 Kai Lung's Golden Hours, by Ernest Bramah[Bramah3][klsghxxx.xxx]1267
Apr 1998 Lavender and Old Lace, by Myrtle Reed [lvolcxxx.xxx]1266
Apr 1998 Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey [qvctrxxx.xxx]1265
Apr 1998 Wheels of Chance/Bicycling Idyll by H.G. Wells #14[wchncxxx.xxx]1264
Apr 1998 The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton [EW#9][tgotmxxx.xxx]1263
Apr 1998 Heritage of the Desert, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #6][hdsrtxxx.xxx]1262
Apr 1998 Betty Zane, by Zane Grey [Early U.S. Heroine] [#5][bzanexxx.xxx]1261
Mar 1998 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte [#7 by Bronte's] [janeyxxx.xxx]1260
Mar 1998 Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #4] [3muskxxx.xxx]1259
Mar 1998 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #3][2muskxxx.xxx]1258
Mar 1998 The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #2][1muskxxx.xxx]1257
Mar 1998 Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand [In French] [cdbfrxxx.xxx]1256
Mar 1998 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand[HTML Accents][cdbfrxxh.xxx]1255
Mar 1998 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand [In English] [cdbenxxx.xxx]1254
Mar 1998 A Simple Soul, by Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert #1] [ssengxxx.xxx]1253
Mar 1998 Le Mort d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory Volume 2[TM#2][2martxxx.xxx]1252
Mar 1998 Le Mort d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory Volume 1[TM#1][1martxxx.xxx]1251
Mar 1998 Anthem, by Ayn Rand [Alice Rosenblum][Ayn Rand #1][anthmxxx.xxx]1250
Mar 1998 Anthem, by Ayn Rand [Comparison of anthm10 & 10a] [anthmxxz.xxx]1250
Mar 1998 Last of the Great Scouts, by Helen Cody Wetmore [bbillxxx.xxx]1248
Mar 1998 Buffalo Bill [William F. Cody], Helen Cody Wetmore[bbillxxx.xxx]1248
Mar 1998 Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay[Millay#2][aprilxxx.xxx]1247
Mar 1998 The House of Dust, by Conrad Aiken [Aiken #1][hdustxxx.xxx]1246
Mar 1998 Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf [Woolf #2][nidayxxx.xxx]1245
Mar 1998 Love for Love, by William Congreve [Congreve #3][lv4lvxxx.xxx]1244
Mar 1998 Hearts of Controversy, by Alice Meynell [Alice #3][hrtcnxxx.xxx]1243
Mar 1998 Unconscious Comedians, by Honore de Balzac [HDB#8][nccmdxxx.xxx]1242
Mar 1998 The Well of the Saints, by J. M. Synge [Synge #3][welstxxx.xxx]1241
Mar 1998 The Playboy of the Western World, by J. M. Synge#2[potwwxxx.xxx]1240
Mar 1998 The Spirit of the Border, by Zane Grey [Grey #4] [sprtbxxx.xxx]1239
Mar 1998 The City of Dreadful Night, by James Thomson [ctdntxxx.xxx]1238
Mar 1998 Father Goriot, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #8] [frgrtxxx.xxx]1237
Mar 1998 First Across the Continent, by Noah Brooks [landcxxx.xxx]1236
Mar 1998 Lewis and Clark 1st Across the Continent by Brooks[landcxxx.xxx]1236
Mar 1998 Captain Fracasse, by Theophile Gautier [cptnfxxx.xxx]1235
Mar 1998 Organic Syntheses, James Bryant Conant, Editor [rgsynxxx.xxx]1234
Mar 1998 Origin and Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile [oanoexxx.xxx]1233
Mar 1998 The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli, Tr. Marriott #3[tprncxxx.xxx]1232
Mar 1998 Valentino, by Nicolo Machiavelli, Tr. Marriott #2[tprncxxx.xxx]1232
Mar 1998 Castracani, by Nicolo Machiavelli, Tr. Marriott #1[tprncxxx.xxx]1232
Mar 1998 On the Track, by Henry Lawson [Henry Lawson #3][ontrkxxx.xxx]1231
Mar 1998 Pierre Grassou, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #7][prgrsxxx.xxx]1230
Mar 1998 Select Poems of Sidney Lanier, Ed. Callaway [SL#3][sposlxxx.xxx]1229
Mar 1998 On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin [#3][otoosxxx.xxx]1228
Mar 1998 Expression Emotion in Man & Animals, by Darwin #2 [eemaaxxx.xxx]1227
Mar 1998 The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 [jap10xxx.xxx]1226
Mar 1998 Faraday As A Discoverer, by John Tyndall [fdaydxxx.xxx]1225
>From Edupage:
I WANT MY MINITEL!
Almost 20 years ago, France became the first networked nation with the
deployment of the Minitel, a low-tech terminal that citizens could use to do
everything from check the weather to order a pizza. Now, the country's 35
million subscribers are loathe to give up their beloved Minitel and go
online with the Internet: "The Minitel... could end up hindering the
development of new and promising applications of information technology,"
warned Prime Minister Jospin last summer, adding that France's technology
gap "could soon have dire repercussions on competitiveness and employment."
To bring the populace up to speed, Minitel owner France Telecom is planning
to deploy next-generation terminals that will access both Minitel and the
Internet, but French Internet-industry executives say such hybrid solutions
merely encourage users to keep thinking "Minitel," rather than "Internet."
"While we sit and worry about the Minitel and ways to get around it, we
could be throwing our whole future away," says one. (Wall Street Journal 26
Mar 98)
COPYRIGHT SITUATION IN CHINA
Pirated videodisks of the movie "Titanic" were available throughout China
last November, a month before its release in U.S. theaters, and about half a
million pirated disks are smuggled into China every day from Macao. Chinese
officials say there is little they can do about this blatant violation of
the intellectual property rights agreement that China reached with the
United States in 1995. One official explains: "The profits are so great,
they will take any risk. They're like drug dealers. It is very difficult
to arrange a crackdown. You have to coordinate all these different
departments, the copyright publication department, the police, the
Industrial and Commercial Administration. We take copyright violations very
seriously. But when it comes to copying a disk, most Chinese people don't
see what's wrong." And one merchant who sells pirated material insists:
"There's nothing wrong with selling pirated VCDs. My son loves watching
them." (New York Times 28 Mar 98)
CULTURE, NOT CURRENCY, MAKES A HAVE-NOT COUNTRY
Digital guru Don Tapscott says whether a nation remains a technology
"have-not" depends on its mindset, not its bank balance: "It's not the poor
countries that are blocking progress. It's countries that have a culture
that impedes innovation, that cannot find the national will to go forward
with technology. What is it about a national culture that enhances
curiosity? You need countries to have an environment where companies have
the potential to create wealth." (Upside Apr 98)
"SPAMFORD" WALLACE AGREES TO STOP SENDING JUNK E-MAIL
Sanford Wallace (dubbed "Spamford" for his aggressiveness in "spamming" the
Internet with unsolicited commercial messages) to pay $2 million to settle
the last of several lawsuits brought by Internet providers against him and
his company, Cyber Promotion Inc. Wallace indicated that legal battles have
"put Cyber out of the spamming business." (New York Times 29 Mar 98)
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To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Subject: March Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:24:31 -0600 (CST)
*This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March 4, 1998
Passing another milestone:
We should be posting Etext #1250 this month, which would be
a total of 1/8 of our goal of 10,000 Etexts on the Internet.
At that time the following will become true:
$1 Trillion Given Away By Project Gutenberg
We have now given away $1 trillion worth of Etexts: based on Etexts
being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100 million users
on the 2 billion computers in the world.
**To avoid the difference between American and other -illions, where
each successive name is multiplied by a million instead of where the
Americans multiply by only a thousand, please use the following: **
We have now given away $1,000,000,000,000 in Etexts, based on Etexts
being nominally valued at $8 each to an average of 100,000,000 users
on the 2,000,000,000 computers in the world.
In August we should be able to reduce that nominal value to $7, then
next March to $6, and on 1/1/2000 to $5 as a nominal value per book;
and when we finally reach #10,000, it will take only a truly nominal
value of $1 each for Project Gutenberg to have given away a trillion
dollars worth of Etexts, even if we still only reach 100 million for
the average number to use each Etext, out of a world population that
will be between 6 billion and 7 billion, with 2 billion to 3 billion
computers for them to use, perhaps even 4 billion by that time. The
current world population is now exactly 5.9 billion, as of today; it
should be 6 billion by the time we reach the millennium].
Recently released:
William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman[Saved #1066][wlmcnxxx.xxx]1066
We wanted to make the obvious connection from year 1066 to book 1066
If you would like to reserve any of the dates between 1225 and 2000,
just let me know. Example: something on Columbus for #1492, and on
his later trips, Magellan, etc., for the next few Etexts.
Requests:
Madame Bovary
Emerson
Yeats
Tennyson
Byron
Verne's Off On A Comet
George Eliot's Ramola
20 Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
Brecht
J.M. Barrie's Little White Bird [First Peter Pan appearance]
We still need someone to help us create a "hit counter" for
relaying hits to other Etext sources, so they get credited.
This is VERY important for some of them to get grants, etc.
Those of you interested in doing Spanish Etexts may want to
take a look at:
http://listserv.ccit.arizona.edu/comedia.html
***
Here are the 36 Etexts for February, 1998
Mon Year Title Author #Books by Author [filename.ext]####
Feb 1998 [A Biography of] Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims [lanrbxxx.xxx]1224
Feb 1998 Ursula, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #6] [rsulaxxx.xxx]1223
Feb 1998 Cobb's Anatomy, by Irvin S. Cobb [Humorous Spoof] [canatxxx.xxx]1222
Feb 1998 Origin and Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile [oanoexxx.xxx]1221
Feb 1998 The Atheist's Mass, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#5][athmsxxx.xxx]1220
Feb 1998 Essay on Comedy, Comic Spirit George Meredith[#2][esycmxxx.xxx]1219
Feb 1998 The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, by Frank L. Packard[advjdxxx.xxx]1218
Feb 1998 Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, by Wiggin [#5][pesctxxx.xxx]1217
Feb 1998 Decline of Science in England, by Charles Babbage [dosiexxx.xxx]1216
Feb 1998 The Elixir of Life, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#4][lxrlfxxx.xxx]1215
Feb 1998 The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart[sstrsxxx.xxx]1214
Feb 1998 Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain [#13][hdlybxxx.xxx]1213
Feb 1998 Love and Friendship, et. al., by Jane Austen [#7] [lvfndxxx.xxx]1212
Feb 1998 Love and Freindship, et. al., by Jane Austen [#7] [lvfndxxx.xxx]1212
Feb 1998 From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick[Palgrave][lporhxxx.xxx]1211
Feb 1998 Kwaidan, by Lafcadio Hearn [Lafcadio Hearn #2] [kwidnxxx.xxx]1210
Feb 1998 History Of The Conquest Of Peru, by Wm H. Prescott[hcpruxxx.xxx]1209
Feb 1998 The Seed of McCoy, by Jack London[Jack London #48][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 The Inevitable White Man, by Jack London [JL #47][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 The Terrible Solomons, by Jack London [London #46][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 The Heathen, by Jack London [Jack London #45][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 "Yah! Yah! Yah!", by Jack London [Jack London #44][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 Mauki, by Jack London [Jack London #43][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 The Whale Tooth, by Jack London [Jack London #42][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 The House of Mapuhi, by Jack London [London #41][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 South Sea Tales, by Jack London [London #41-48][sosetxxx.xxx]1208
Feb 1998 Nada the Lily, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #2] [ndllyxxx.xxx]1207
Feb 1998 The Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower [Bower #5] [flurnxxx.xxx]1206
Feb 1998 The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell [Meynell #2] [clrlfxxx.xxx]1205
Feb 1998 Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower #4] [cabfvxxx.xxx]1204
Feb 1998 Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope [Anthony Hope #4] [dlydlxxx.xxx]1203
Feb 1998 Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #20] [tnrstxxx.xxx]1202
Feb 1998 Essay on the Trial By Jury, by Lysander Spooner[1][tbjryxxx.xxx]1201
Feb 1998 Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francis Rabelais [ggpntxxx.xxx]1200
Feb 1998 An Anthology of Australian Verse, Bertram Stevens [ozvrxxxx.xxx]1199
Feb 1998 Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood[T.A.Browne][robryxxx.xxx]1198
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 St. John's Eve, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#7][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Cloak, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#6][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, by Nikolai Gogol[#5][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Mysterious Portrait, by Nikolai Gogol [#4][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Calash, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#3][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#2][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Purse, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #3] [pursexxx.xxx]1196
Feb 1998 Glasses, by Henry James [Henry James #19][glsesxxx.xxx]1195
Feb 1998 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by de Rougemont [advlrxxx.xxx]1194
Feb 1998 The Coxon Fund, by Henry James [Henry James #18][coxonxxx.xxx]1193
Feb 1998 The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve [Congreve#2][oldbaxxx.xxx]1192
Feb 1998 The Double-Dealer, by William Congreve[Congreve#1][dbdlrxxx.xxx]1191
Feb 1998 The Jolly Corner, by Henry James [Henry James #17][jllycxxx.xxx]1190
Feb 1998 The Message, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #2] [msagexxx.xxx]1189
These four, which WERE labeled for February, are now labeled for January, for
36 Etexts per month for 1998 and 1999 so we can try to reach #2000 1/1/2000.
Jan 1998 Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker [Stoker #2][lrwhwxxx.xxx]1188
Jan 1998 War of the Classes, by Jack London[Jack London#40][wrclsxxx.xxx]1187
Jan 1998 Poems by Alice Meynell [Alice Meynell #1] [pomamxxx.xxx]1186
Jan 1998 Conflict Between Religion & Science by John Draper[hcbrsxxx.xxx]1185
Mar 1998 Faraday As A Discoverer, by John Tyndall [fdaydxxx.xxx]1225
Also in the works, The Three Musketeers, and the two sequels,
and Anthem, by Ayn Rand. Will be posted this week.
***
GATES SAYS GOVERNMENT ACTIONS HAMPERS MICROSOFT'S ABILITY TO INNOVATE
Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates says that if the Justice Department
prevents the company from adding new features to its Windows software,
Microsoft will lose its ability to remain a technology industry leader.
Gates argues: "It's hard to say that you're going to compromise on your
ability to innovate in Windows. If I can't put Internet support in Windows,
then Windows will fail. If I can't put speech recognition into Windows,
Windows will fail. You know, our path is to make Windows better. If we
can't innovate in our products, then you know we will be replaced."
(Washington Post 3 Mar 98)
MICROSOFT SOFTENS POSITION
Microsoft says it is revising agreements with about 12 U.S. and 30 European
Internet service providers to allow them advertise and promote browsers
other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. A company spokesman
explained: "This change makes sense from a business perspective, and if it
helps to alleviate any potential government concerns, then it's a change
we're happy to make." (Washington Post 2 Mar 98)
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Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter, February, 1998
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:58:24 -0600 (CST)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February, 1998
Milestones to consider:
Etext #1200 posted yesterday. . .possibly #2000 on 1/1/2000
10 years ago we were just posting Etext #12. . . .
We are considering moving to 36 books per month, and, would
like to have your input on this, as I consider this is YOUR
project. . . . If we do 36 per month for the next 23 month
period, we should be able to reach 2000 Etexts by January 1
of the year 2000. . .however. . .I *am* aware that we would
be pushing things a bit, so I am going to give this at most
a one month trial period, so we can get some feedback. The
Directors assure me that they have volunteers ready to go--
but I always like to check with out volunteers at large, b4
we change things. I think it *would* be kind of nice to do
our 2,000th Etext during the big celebration. . . .
[I know that the Third Millennium really doesn't start that
year, but rather in 2001. . .since there was no year zero.]
Here are the 32 Etexts for January, 1998, and if we can get
enough more out in February, I will rename some of them for
January's extra 4 Etexts. I pushed the envelope yesterday,
and in a fit of the workaholism I am somewhat famous for, I
posted 12 Etexts yesterday, as it is hard for me not to get
going hard when crossing a milestone such as Etext #1200.
The very earliest of our volunteers joined us approximately
10 years ago, when we had only about 12 Etexts in our small
collection. . .though not so small if you consider how long
it took to download them at 300/1200/2400 baud.
Today we have about 100 Etexts available for each Etext the
collection had 10 years ago. If we can keep growing at the
same rate, we can have a library truly worthy of that name,
10 years from now.
I am not sure how well this is going to work out for me, as
I have been pretty much working as hard as I can for years,
and last year really wore me out.
However, if we can get just a few more volunteer editors in
English and a few other languages, we can do this.
We desperately need at least one editor in these languages:
French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
and other languages
[see list below]
We still need someone to help us create a "hit counter" for
relaying hits to other Etext sources, so they get credited.
This is VERY important for some of them to get grants, etc.
Meanwhile here are the 32 Etexts already posted for January
and below that the ones I posted yesterday for February, of
which 4 may be renamed as for January if we can get 36 more
Etexts on line before the end of the month.
You might be interested to know that Etexts 1198, 99 & 1200
each have their origins down under in Australia. #2000 was
produced by Sue Asscher from down under in Queensland: and
the other two are by Australian authors.
We are working hard to set up teams in the languages and/or
countries listed below this index. We hope you can help!!!
**Project Gutenberg Index for the 32 January, 1998 Etexts**
Mon Year Title/Author [# of Books by Author] [filename.ext]####
Jan 1998 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][crstoxxx.xxx]1184
Jan 1998 The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer[Rohmer4][rfumnxxx.xxx]1183
Jan 1998 Dope, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #3] [dopexxxx.xxx]1182
Jan 1998 The Symposium by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#13][sympmxxx.xxx]1181
Jan 1998 The Sportsman, by Xenophon trans. by Dakyns [#12][sportxxx.xxx]1180
Jan 1998 On Revenues by Xenophon, translated by Dakyns[#11][rvnuexxx.xxx]1179
Jan 1998 Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians, Xenophon[#10][pltisxxx.xxx]1178
Jan 1998 The Memorabilia by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#9][mmrbixxx.xxx]1177
Jan 1998 On Horsemanship by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#8][hrsmnxxx.xxx]1176
Jan 1998 Hiero, by Xenophon, translation by H.G. Dakyns[#7][hieroxxx.xxx]1175
Jan 1998 Hellenica, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#6][hllncxxx.xxx]1174
Jan 1998 The Economist, by Xenophon, Dakyns translation[#5][econmxxx.xxx]1173
Jan 1998 The Cavalry General by Xenophon, trans. Dakyns[#4][cvlryxxx.xxx]1172
Jan 1998 The Apology by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns[#3][aplgyxxx.xxx]1171
Jan 1998 Anabasis, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#2][anbssxxx.xxx]1170
Jan 1998 Agesilaus, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#1][agslsxxx.xxx]1169
Jan 1998 The Pool in the Desert, Sara Jeannette Duncan [pldstxxx.xxx]1168
Jan 1998 A Strange Disappearance, by Anna Katharine Green [sdsprxxx.xxx]1167
Jan 1998 The Second Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [sbkmvxxx.xxx]1166
Jan 1998 The Little Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [lbkmvxxx.xxx]1165
Jan 1998 The Iron Heel, by Jack London [Jack London #39] [irnhlxxx.xxx]1164
Jan 1998 Adventure, by Jack London [Jack London #38] [advntxxx.xxx]1163
Jan 1998 The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London [London#37][jaketxxx.xxx]1162
Jan 1998 Jerry of the Islands, by Jack London [London #36] [jrislxxx.xxx]1161
Jan 1998 The Game, by Jack London [Jack London #35] [tgamexxx.xxx]1160
Jan 1998 Fire-Tongue, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #2] [firtgxxx.xxx]1159
Jan 1998 Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #6][pnrdsxxx.xxx]1158
Jan 1998 Les Avaries by Eugene Brieux, Novel/Sinclair Lewis[dmgdsxxx.xxx]1157
Jan 1998 Damaged Goods by Sinclair Lewis from "Les Avaries"[dmgdsxxx.xxx]1157
Jan 1998 Babbit, by Sinclair Lewis [Sinclair Lewis #2] [babitxxx.txt]1156
Jan 1998 Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie [Christie #2][secadxxx.txt]1155
Jan 1998 Voyages of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting[Lofting2][vdrdlxxx.txt]1154
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
***and these for February to get us to Etext #1200. . .12% of our our goal***
Feb 1998 Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francis Rabelais [ggpntxxx.xxx]1200
Feb 1998 An Anthology of Australian Verse, Bertram Stevens [ozvrxxxx.xxx]1199
Feb 1998 Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood[T.A.Browne][robryxxx.xxx]1198
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 St. John's Eve, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#7][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Cloak, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#6][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, by Nikolai Gogol[#5][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Mysterious Portrait, by Nikolai Gogol [#4][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Calash, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#3][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [#2][tarasxxx.xxx]1197
Feb 1998 The Purse, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #3] [pursexxx.xxx]1196
Feb 1998 Glasses, by Henry James [Henry James #19][glsesxxx.xxx]1195
Feb 1998 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by de Rougemont [advlrxxx.xxx]1194
Feb 1998 The Coxon Fund, by Henry James [Henry James #18][coxonxxx.xxx]1193
Feb 1998 The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve [Congreve#2][oldbaxxx.xxx]1192
Feb 1998 The Double-Dealer, by William Congreve[Congreve#1][dbdlrxxx.xxx]1191
Feb 1998 The Jolly Corner, by Henry James [Henry James #17][jllycxxx.xxx]1190
Feb 1998 The Message, by Honore' de Balzac [Balzac #2] [msagexxx.xxx]1189
We would VERY much like to form Project Gutenberg Teams in these languages!!!
1. Arabic
2. Chinese
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7 German
8. Greek
9. Hebrew
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