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Subject: resend March Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:00:06 -0600 (CST)
This is a resend of yesterday's Newsletter. . .due to rebooting, a few
things went wrong with the header and most copies did not go out. The
error is now corrected in our mainframe, and we are including one book
we did not include yesterday, a good one, to make it more worthwhile a
thing for you if you actually got yesterday's copy. Apologies. . . mh
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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for, Wednesday, March 3, 1999
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
[Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.]
Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy
We need lots of help this month. . .please see below, if willing. . .!
Below that. . .we also have another month's worth of Etexts for you!!!
Contents:
0. Just found out today, we are going to NEED some moderate funds,
now, not just what I had hoped for the future! . . .more later.
1. We Need Serious Help With Other Languages, More Than I Can Say.
2. Project Gutenberg Etexts Now Available Via FTPMail. . . .
3. Requests for Rafael Sabatini
The Sea-Hawk, Captain Blood, or Banner of the Bull, pre-1923 books.
4 New This Month. . .besides the month's Etexts, more Shakespeare of
the apocryphal nature, a new edition Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
It looks like we are going to need some VERY serious people to help on
doing Etexts in other languages. . .I am not willing to give up on the
other languages. . .but I now realize just how important it is to have
someone who can help coordinate the efforts in other languages. . . .
A. Don Quixote in Spanish
We are apparently going to need ALL THE HELP WE CAN POSSIBLY GET if we
are going to present this as our 2,000th Etext--if you know anyone who
can help find pre-1923 editions, or who is willing to help proofread--
I don't want to put this off. . .it is too good a choice. . .HELP!!!
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Don Quixote in Spanish. . .we are not getting very far with this one--
we have only about two more months before we COULD post Etext #2000...
BUT...I am willing to put this off until 1/1/2000 if that's what it is
going to take to get something rolling. I think it is very important,
more than I can say, to do more Etexts in more languages. . . .
B. La Tulipe Noire in French
La Tulipe Noire, in French, by Alexandre Dumas. . .we have an Etext in
. . .but it needs some serious proofreading. . .we would LOVE to do an
entire series of Dumas in French and English, and others in French!
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New this month:
Addition to our recent new releases of Shakespeare:
Jun 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare [Apocryphal] [1ws5110x.xxx]1788
We have also fixed 1ws2610.* which were accidentally
saved as WordPerfect files rather than in PVASCII.
Those are in /etext97
We have also corrected thousands of errors in Etexts
over the past month or two while things were slowed
down over the holidays. Of course, with approximately
2,000 Etexts, this represents only an average of a few
errors corrected in each one, but you will find more
corrections in those with filenames with higher numbers.
i.e. xxxxx11.txt will have major corrections from *10.txt
and xxxxxx12.txt will have major corrections from *11.txt,
and so on. We hope you will continue to send us email of
any errors or suggestions. We do not ALWAYS change the
version number when we make only a few correction, but
it might be worthwhile to download new copies once a year
or so, or to check the dates on the prairienet.org site
against the dates on your files. . .I don't think the
other sites keep our dates, sorry. . .except that the
.zip files should unzip to the real file dates.
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We have done a massive update of our 1913 Webster's Unabridged,
and version 05 is NOT copyrighted. . . .
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx] 670
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [TW][pgwtwxxx.xxx] 669
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [S] [pgwsxxxx.xxx] 668
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [R] [pgwrxxxx.xxx] 667
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [PQ][pgwpqxxx.xxx] 666
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [MO][pgwmoxxx.xxx] 665
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [IL][pgwilxxx.xxx] 664
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [FH][pgwfhxxx.xxx] 663
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [DE][pgwdexxx.xxx] 662
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [C] [pgwcxxxx.xxx] 661
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx] 660
and here are 36 new listings since we reached #1900 last month.
One from November already:
Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx]1947
and
Oct 1999 The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #6][2jngbxxx.xxx]1937
Oct 1999 Letters from England, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft [ltengxxx.xxx]1936
Oct 1999 Adventures of Major Gahagan, by Thackaray[W.M.T.8][majghxxx.xxx]1935
Oct 1999 Songs of Innocence and Experience, by Wm. Blake[2][sinexxxx.xxx]1934
Oct 1999 The Great Hoggarty Diamond, by Thackeray [W.M.T.7][gthgdxxx.xxx]1933
Oct 1999 Early Kings of Norway, by Thomas Carlyle [T.C. #6][knrwyxxx.xxx]1932
Oct 1999 The Zeppelin's Passenger, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[zplnpxxx.xxx]1931
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
Oct 1999 School For Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan [scndlxxx.xxx]1929
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 2] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Susan Fenimore Cooper[Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 2] [2wyllxxx.xxx]1928
Oct 1999 Elinor Wyllys, by Amabel Penfeather [Volume 1] [1wyllxxx.xxx]1927
Oct 1999 Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[NH #8][gfchrxxx.xxx]1926
Oct 1999 Droll Stories [V. 1], by Honore de Balzac[HdB #82][1drllxxx.xxx]1925
Oct 1999 Many Voices, by E. Nesbit [Poems] [E. Nesbit #8][mnyvcxxx.xxx]1924
Oct 1999 The Poisoned Pen by, Arthur B. Reeve [tppenxxx.xxx]1923
Oct 1999 Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge [Synge #7][drdrexxx.xxx]1922
[This one is a play, and is in markup format, need a volunteer to unmark it.]
Oct 1999 The Chouans, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #81] [chounxxx.xxx]1921
Oct 1999 Billy Baxter's Letters, By William J. Kountz, Jr. [bbxtlxxx.xxx]1920
Oct 1999 Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [H. Alger Jr. #10][blldsxxx.xxx]1919
Oct 1999 Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #8][loddsxxx.xxx]1918
Oct 1999 The Queen of Hearts, by Wilkie Collins[Collins#21][qnhrtxxx.xxx]1917
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, et. al. Nathaniel Hawthorne [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Includes The Great Stone Face and other Tales from the White Mountains>>>
Oct 1999 Sketches From Memory, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#7] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Carbuncle, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#6] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Ambitious Guest, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#5] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 The Great Stone Face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#4] [totwmxxx.xxx]1916
Oct 1999 Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, by Jerome [#14][scthkxxx.xxx]1915
Oct 1999 [Reserved for The Titanic [ xxx.xxx]1914*
Oct 1999 The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath [jprdyxxx.xxx]1913
Oct 1999 The Muse of the Department, by de Balzac [HdB #80][msdptxxx.xxx]1912
Oct 1999 Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther[#6][clbtyxxx.xxx]1911
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
Sep 1999 [Reserved for La Tulipe Noire] [ xxx.xxx]1910
Sep 1999 [Reserved for Darwin] [ xxx.xxx]1909
Sep 1999 Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower[B.M. Bower #10][hrprkxxx.xxx]1908
Sep 1999 Rowdy of the Cross L, by B. M. Bower [BM Bower #9][rowdyxxx.xxx]1907
Sep 1999 Erewhon (Revised Edition), by Samuel Butler [erwhnxxx.xxx]1906
Sep 1999 The Governess [Female Academy], by Sarah Fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx]1905
Sep 1999 Life & Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx]1904
Sep 1999 Everybody's Guide to Money Matters, by Wm. Cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx]1903
Sep 1999 The Old Peabody Pew by Kate Douglas Wiggin[KDW#13][oldpwxxx.xxx]1902
Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx]1901
Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx]1900
Mac users can download our .txt files in binary mode
to avoid the double spacing cr/lf line ends creates.
Or download the .zip files, which unzip properly for
nearly any operating system they are unzipped for...
>From Edupage:
AND VIEWERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST WEB AD OVERLOAD
Meanwhile, Web surfers weary of enduring the "pulsating, candy-colored wave
of advertising that has spread across the Internet," increasingly are
turning to ad-blocking software to speed up their download times. "They are
a symbol of people saying, 'I'm not going to take it anymore,'" says Jakob
Nielsen, co-founder of the Nielsen-Norman Group. The ad blockers, which
automatically eliminate all advertising from Web pages, go by names like
WebWasher, InterMute and AtGuard. Many online advertisers dismiss the trend
toward ad-blocking, noting that when faster connections are available,
consumers will not be so annoyed about being forced to download cumbersome
advertisement files. "Consumers understand the basic proposition that all
the free things are enabled by advertising," says the chairman of the
Internet Advertising Bureau. "Advertising is transforming the business
model." (Los Angeles Times 2 Mar 99)
OPEN UNIVERSITY OFFERS FIRST ONLINE COURSE
Britain's Open University, one of the oldest distance education institutions
in existence, this week launched its first online course -- "You, Your
Computer and the Net." The course, which is designed for students with
little or no technical knowledge, has attracted 2,000 students, with one
senior O.U. lecturer calling the response "overwhelming." Participants will
use a dedicated Web site and will have e-mail access to individual tutors.
The O.U. says the new course is aimed at those "who feel apprehensive about
the apparently inexorable march of the new communications technologies."
(Financial Times 1 Mar 99)
PREPARE FOR Y2K THE WAY YOU'D PREPARE FOR A THREE-DAY BLOW
Senator Chris Dodd's advice for getting ready for Y2K is: "What you ought
to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two
or three days of water and canned goods and the like," but you shouldn't
withdraw your money from banks. A study conducted by Dodd and Senator
Robert Bennett has concluded that there will be no major problems with
regard to the airways, nuclear weapons, or the nation's power grids. (AP 1
Mar 99)
HALF OF U.S. CLASSROOMS ARE NOW WIRED
The Department of Education says that, largely thanks to government
subsidies, 51% of classrooms, school computer and science labs, and school
libraries had Internet connections in the Fall of 1998 (compared to 27% in
1997 and only 3% in 1994). Smaller and poorer schools are now just as
likely to have Internet connections as larger and wealthier schools.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 1 Mar 99)
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have not yet reached the $1 Trillion mark I predicted when the Y2K bugs
were first announced. . .but I still predict at least that much cost.
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