======== Subject: August Project Gutenberg Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:15:32 -0500 (CDT) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, August 4, 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 *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* Table of Contents: Requests New Files Index Listings for the New Files Notes from Edupage and News Scan *** Requests Would anyone like to do any of these? Just let me know. We have the books already. Grey, Zane. _The Man of the Forest_. New York: Harper, 1920. _Ken Ward in the Jungle_. New York: Harper, 1912. Wells, H. G. _The Passionate Friends_. New York: A. L. Burt, 1913. _In the Fourth Year_. New York: Macmillan, 1918. * Would anyone like to work on Romanian Etexts? * We need someone to unRTF a small file. /home1/36/hart/TARASCON.TEX I will give you the password. * My idea is to translate into Etext Henryk Sienkiewcz's books. He was 1905 Nobel laureat in literature. Is there anybody who can check my work (remember - it's in polish!!!) after scanning/correcting? From: Rafal Stein <Rafal.Stein@nokia.com> Please cc:me *** New Files We have a very interesting collection of Etext for you this August. First, two new languages are introduced, Swedish and Danish, and an introduction to Etext from Project Runeberg, the very first Project Project Gutenberg spin-off, which started 7 years ago. Why did the introduction take so long, as with the Gutenberg Projekt-DE [we are also going to introduce you to them] many Etext projects wanted the opportunity to make it on their own. . .which we were glad to have, until things had gotten strongly underway. So we decided to wait a while, at least until our own Project Gutenberg effort had made the leap to one or two thousand Etexts of our own. So, now, in efforts to create a wider availability of languages on the Internet, we are cooperating with Project Runeberg, the Gutenberg Projekt-DE and the other Etext operations working in the public domain, to bring wider language selections to a wider audience around the world. I didn't realize that it was not obvious that downloading from European site locations was very difficult for persons in South Africa, and South America, Australia, New Zealand, etc. . .or I would have made a big effort to make this more obvious to everyone sooner. This fact was a big part in securing the cooperation of the other projects, along with the fact that we are happy give full credit, list URLs and all other contact information for those who create these Etexts. We do not have this information for the Danish Bible, if you can help.... [Yes, there is a double negative three sentences up. . .mh] In addition to Swedish and Danish, we are also continuing with some German Etexts, including those from our own volunteers. . .Goethe's Egmont is available this month, and hopefully at least one Etext in German each month to come, perhaps two. . .one of our own, plus one from Projekt Gutenberg-DE. We also continue our series of Human Genome Project chromosomes, to include 6 more. . .for a total of 12 of the 24 human chromosomes; I should add that we have chosen the shortest of the 24 files, to get things going as easily as possible. The last one is 50 megabytes!! And these only add up to about 11% of the whole thing, so if you do want these, the total will eventually be 3.3G. In addition, we have two more volumes of our Friedrich series; that now brings our total to 10 of the 21 volumes by Carlyle. To bring the introduction to a close, we have Thomas More's Utopia, along with a few dozen other Etexts you will see listed below. Due to the way we have indexed these for future convenience, we are including [all from the year 2000] 6 Etexts from June, 25 of April, and 12 from March. . .yes, we usually do post a few more than 36 as the Newsletter comes out on the first Wednesday of the month, so we have a few days of work from the next month, which I feel we should include, rather than make you wait an additional month. I should add a few comments about using http ["The Web"] versus ftp ["The Net"]. . .if you use http, then you have to wait for a "human being" to index the files for that Web Site. . .unless they have an automated indexing system, which is usually not the case. . .but if you use ftp [which you can now do from most Web Browsers, you don't have to wait for such an index to be built. However, these indices are often very valuable in searching for what you want, so I should strongly recommend you use them when, other then when searching for the very latest Etexts. . .the indices usually contain everything I have posted, other than from the most recent Newsletter. If you do want to use ftp, keep this Newsletter's contents on file so you can recognize which filenames you want to get. *** And now, here are 43? Etexts from March, April and June, of year 2000. Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V5[Raven Edition][10][poe5vxxx.xxx]2151 Contents Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Devill Your Head Thou Art the Man Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling Bon-Bon Some words with a Mummy The Poetic Principle Old English Poetry and other poems including The Raven, Lenore, and many others. Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V4[Raven Edition][#9][poe4vxxx.xxx]2150 Contents The Devil in the Belfry Lionizing X-ing a Paragrab Metzengerstein The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. How to Write a Blackwood article A Predicament Mystification Diddling The Angel of the Odd Mellonia Tauta The Duc de l'Omlette The Oblong Box Loss of Breath The Man That Was Used Up The Business Man The Landscape Garden Maelzel's Chess-Player The Power of Words The Colloquy of Monas and Una The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Shadow.--A Parable Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V3[Raven Edition][#8][poe3vxxx.xxx]2149 Contents Narrative of A. Gordon Pym Ligeia Morella A Tale of the Ragged Mountains The Spectacles King Pest Three Sundays in a Week Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V2[Raven Edition][#7][poe2vxxx.xxx]2148 Contents The Purloined Letter The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade A Descent into the Maelstrvm Von Kempelen and his Discovery Mesmeric Revelation The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Black Cat The Fall of the House of Usher Silence -- a Fable The Masque of the Red Death The Cask of Amontillado The Imp of the Perverse The Island of the Fay The Assignation The Pit and the Pendulum The Premature Burial The Domain of Arnheim Landor's Cottage William Wilson The Tell-Tale Heart Berenice Eleonora Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V1[Raven Edition][#6][poe1vxxx.xxx]2147 Contents Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall The Gold Bug Four Beasts in One The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogjt The Balloon Hoax MS. Found in a Bottle The Oval Portrait Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][8gmntxxx.xxx]2146 Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][7gmntxxx.xxx]2146 We produce two versions of each of our Etexts that have diacritic accents, an 8 bit version with the accents included, and a 7 bit version without them, so all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh [The 8 bit version filenames begin with 8xxxx, and the 7 bit ones with 7xxxx] Apr 2000 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace [benhrxxx.xxx]2145 Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, Old Testament, Copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx]2144C Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, New Testament, Public Domain[bbldnxxx.xxx]2143 Apr 2000 Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy #7][chldhxxx.xxx]2142 Apr 2000 Strictly Business[More 4 Million] by O Henry[OH#7][stbusxxx.xxx]2141 Contains: STRICTLY BUSINESS THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED BABES IN THE JUNGLE THE DAY RESURGENT THE FIFTH WHEEL THE POET AND THE PEASANT THE ROBE OF PEACE THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT THE CALL OF THE TAME THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY THE THING'S THE PLAY A RAMBLE IN APHASIA A MUNICIPAL REPORT PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER A BIRD OF BAGDAD COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON A NIGHT IN NEW ARABIA THE GIRL AND THE HABIT PROOF OF THE PUDDING PAST ONE AT RODNEY'S THE VENTURERS THE DUEL "WHAT YOU WANT" Apr 2000 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, by Bray [drbryxxx.xxx]2140 Apr 2000 Alvira, Heroine of Vesuvius, by A. J. O'Reilly [alvraxxx.xxx]2139 Apr 2000 The Day's Work - Part I, by Rudyard Kipling [RK#7][dywrkxxx.xxx]2138 Apr 2000 Rosamund, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [ACS #2][rsmndxxx.xxx]2137 Apr 2000 The Tale of Balen, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1[balenxxx.xxx]2136 Apr 2000 Stories by English Authors in London, Scribners [sbealxxx.xxx]2135 Apr 2000 Utopia of Usurers, et al, by G. K. Chesterton[#14][uusryxxx.xxx]2134 Apr 2000 Chinese Sketches, by Herbert A. Giles [Giles #2][chnskxxx.xxx]2133 Apr 2000 The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx]2132 Apr 2000 An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Tr. by Macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx]2131 Apr 2000 Utopia, by Thomas More[Banned in his time][More#2][utopixxx.xxx]2130 Apr 2000 Murad the Unlucky, etc., by Maria Edgeworth[ME #3][muradxxx.xxx]2129 Apr 2000 Original Narratives of Early American History[var][mohwkxxx.xxx]2128 Apr 2000 Paul and Virginia, by Bernardin de Saint Pierre [pandvxxx.xxx]2127 Mar 2000 The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, by Sax Rohmer[#6][qotssxxx.xxx]2126 Mar 2000 The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Samuel W. Baker[niletxxx.xxx]2125 Mar 2000 Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fa-Hien[Legge#1][rbddhxxx.xxx]2124 Mar 2000 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France 3[tcosbxxx.xxx]2123 Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 10[10frdxxx.xxx]2110 Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 9 [09frdxxx.xxx]2109 Mar 2000 The Bible, in Swedish, From Project Runeberg [biblsxxx.xxx]2100 Mar 2000 History of the Moravian Church, by J. E. Hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx]2099 Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx]2098 Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx]2097 Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx]2096 Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx]2095 and Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220 Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214 Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2212 Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211 Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205 Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204 Not all sites have the ??hgp10.txt file, due to size limitations. Last month we failed to report properly the other characters in the chromosome files besides ATGC. . .here they are: ? Meaning a a; adenine c c; cytosine g g; guanine t t; thymine in DNA; uracil in RNA m a or c r a or g w a or t s c or g y c or t k g or t v a or c or g; not t h a or c or t; not g d a or g or t; not c b c or g or t; not a n a or c or g or t AOL TO MICROSOFT: SORRY, BUT IT'S A PRIVATE PARTY America Online is trying to block attempts by Microsoft's new MSN Messenger Service to let Microsoft customers exchange messages instantly with AOL's community of users. Charging Microsoft with trespassing on its system, AOL has erected several software barriers to Microsoft's efforts, prompting Microsoft to respond to each obstruction by developing an immediate software workaround. Forrester Research analyst Tom Rhinelander sees the argument as "kind of like a food fight, like a couple of juveniles saying 'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can,' 'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can.' ... AOL will say 'we've got to be careful about security and scalability,' and all these kinds of things. But they'll be forced to open up to the other folks, there's no way around it." (San Jose Mercury News 27 Jul 99) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/instan072799.htm INTERNET FEVER SPREADS TO BRITAIN With British ISP Freeserve PLC enjoying a 37% stock price increase on the first day of public trading, Britain.is getting its first experience of the wild Internet success stories now common in the U.S. Freeserve, which is now the largest access provider in Britain, developed a business model that gives customers free access -- and derives its revenue exclusively by taking a share of phone revenue generated by the cost of the telephone calls users place to Freeserve. Unlike the U.S., where phone customers in most parts of the country can make unlimited local calls for a flat monthly charge, European phone companies (at least for the present!) charge by minutes of connect time. (New York Times 27 Jul 99) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/27net.html RUSSIAN ISP SAYS "NYET" TO SPYING Russian Internet service provider Bayard-Slavia is refusing to obey a directive that gives the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) the right to examine private e-mail messages without a warrant. The System of Efficient Research Measures 2directive also requires ISPs to pay for surveillance equipment in their servers and for a link to FSB headquarters. In retaliation for Bayard-Slavia's recalcitrance, the FSB has withdrawn the ISP's license, frozen its bank account, and is challenging its right to frequencies for its satellite link to Moscow. "We will never help the FSB implement illegal shadowing," says Bayard-Slavia's director general. "We're the first ISP to struggle against illegal information collection. Unfortunately, we're also likely to become the first to be destroyed because of insubordination." (Data Communications 26 Jul 99) http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19990726S0003 You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: If you have questions or comments about NewsScan send e-mail to Editors@newsscan.com To subscribe or unsubscribe to NewsScan Daily, send an e-mail message to NewsScan@NewsScan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. INTERNET RIVALS ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP AOL'S INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM A number of Internet service providers aim to establish open access to America Online's exclusive instant messaging programs. Instant messaging notifies users when their friends are online and allows them to type messages to each other. It is an increasingly popular form of communication, and with three services and a total 80 million users, AOL dominates the market. Yet Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Prodigy each attempted to change this recently by creating rival services that can communicate with users of AOL's services. AOL responded to this threat by changing its communications protocols, effectively eliminating the rival programs' access to its service. While Microsoft has been able to adjust its software to access AOL, Yahoo! and Prodigy have not. The three contend that AOL should open its technology to facilitate interaction between users of all services. Yet AOL argues that because access to its services was unauthorized, the rival services have breached accepted security standards. (Wall Street Journal 07/26/99) You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** >From Dr. Internet Don't Believe What They Tell You About Having To Turn Your Cookies On Telling you that you must turn your cookies on. . . ? Do NOT believe! There is no service provided on the Web or on the entire Internet that really requires you to turn your cookies on. . .I suggest you email to postmaster, root and support @ any domains that say this and tell them you do not plan to use their servies until they stop this. Unless you are doing some seriously expert usage, there should be no need to turn cookies on for anything. 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... About the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: [Goes out approximately first Wednesday of each month. But different relays will get it to you at different times; you can subscribe directly, just send me email to find out how, or surf to promo.net/pg to subscribe directly by yourself.]
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