JANUARY 1999

This is the PG Newsletter of Wednesday, January 6, 1999

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As you may recall from past years, we usually do not send this out the first Wednesday of the year, so it won't get lost in your mailbox when you return from the holidays, but this year is just going to be so hot with potential that I thought we should get a head start.

More about all of the 1999 project and deadlines shortly.

Right now we just need to get more xeroxes in from pre-1923 editions, so we can get your copyright research done.

We have more interest than ever in getting all languages on line; this will take an ENORMOUS effort, and we will need some very energetic and patient volunteers to coordinate these efforts. We would like to find at least two or three volunteers willing to be Team Leader for various language teams we will be forming. . .this is going to take some work!

We will be notifying all those who volunteered to work on Spanish. . !

Here are some examples of other interests:

From: Leonidas Hatzinikolaou I write to you, Michael, with the following proposal: I'm volunteering to undertake the task of coordinating a collective effort in my country to digitally publish Greek books in the public domain, both in the Greek language and translations of them (wherever they can be found) in English, under the auspices of the GUTENBERG PROJECT. The formats and all rules of submissions of the e-texts will be according to the rules established by the GUTENBERG PROJECT. I will try to spread the message all over Greece asking for more volunteers to help in our task. I will check-out the texts, their copyright status, etc. Currently I have a web site under development (http://www.hatzinikolaou.org), where I can host the Greek e-texts (which require Greek fonts, etc.), which, of course, I will forward as soon as I receive them to the GUTENBERG PROJECT.

and. . .

Can we work on a few pieces of art, or more music?

Is it possible to, for example, generate a nice image of the Mona Lisa? Or a few more MIDI files of the great classics? Maybe some of DaVinci's neat graphics.

It's not text, but would be nice to spice things up. What I don't know about are the copyright problems for art and how to get a high-rez image....I could visit France and take my own photos...

For suggested books (I'm not volunteering, but in case you want ideas to pass on);

Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. (1910)

also Newton's Principia (don't know how old an English translation we can find...

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And. . .a piece of good news for you who buying new computers:

Current PC sales at the end of 1998:

$1,000 is the current average price— $800 - $1200 accounts for 67% of all: 1 computer out of 6 costs over $1200: 1 computer out of 6 costs under $800.

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And now here are the usual 36 Etexts we provide in each Newsletter. . . .

28 are officially for release in August, 1999, and 8 or 9 more in June, 1999. . .you MAY want to replace the listing we sent to you for June two months ago, as it will be easier than pasting in.

Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####

Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 2, by Anthony Trollope [AT #4][2noamxxx.xxx]1866

Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx]1865

Aug 1999 Hero Tales From American History, Lodge/Roosevelt [htfahxxx.xxx]1864

Aug 1999 From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray [WMT #6][crhcrxxx.xxx]1863

Aug 1999 Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx]1862

Aug 1999 An Old Town By The Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich #6[ldtwnxxx.xxx]1861

Aug 1999 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley[Chas Kingsley #8][wsthoxxx.xxx]1860

Aug 1999 The Works of Max Beerbohm, by Max Beerbohm[Max #6][twombxxx.xxx]1859

Aug 1999 Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling[#5][ptfthxxx.xxx]1858

Aug 1999 Initials Only, by Anna Katharine Green [Green #3][ionlyxxx.xxx]1857

Aug 1999 Cousin Pons, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #74][cspnsxxx.xxx]1856

Aug 1999 Ban and Arriere Ban, by Andrew Lang[Andr. Lang#15][bnabnxxx.xxx]1855

Aug 1999 Catherine de Medici, by Honore de Balzac/Balzac#73[ctdmdxxx.xxx]1854

Aug 1999 The Ninth Vibration, et. al., by L. Adams Beck #8 [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Interpreter, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #7][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Incomparable Lady, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #6][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Hatred of the Queen, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #5][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Fire of Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB #4][9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Building of the Taj Majal, by L. Adams Beck #3[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! by L Adams Beck[9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 The Round-Faced Beauty, by L. Adams Beck [LAB#1] [9thvbxxx.xxx]1853

Aug 1999 Lucile, by Owen Meredith [lucilxxx.xxx]1852

Aug 1999 The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green #2[wintaxxx.xxx]1851

Aug 1999 Old Christmas, by Washington Irving [Irving #5][oxmasxxx.xxx]1850

Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx]1849

Aug 1999 Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #7][mzdtrxxx.xxx]1848

Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx]1847

Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846

Aug 1999 The Vision Spendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx]1846

Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx]1845

Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844

Aug 1999 The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx]1844

Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx]1843

Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #9][strgfxxx.xxx]1842

Aug 1999 Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #72][zmrcsxxx.xxx]1841

Aug 1999 The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser [tfncrxxx.xxx]1840

Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx]1839

May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29 and last of this Plato series][plawsxxx.xxx]1750

[We would love to do more tranlations of Plato, if you are have any. Michael]

And here is a more complete and more organized listing for June, 1999

Etexts #1765 thru #1802 are mosly corrected Shakespeare.

Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####

Jun 1999 The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare [1ws4011x.xxx]1800

Jun 1999 Cymbeline, by Shakespeare [1ws3911x.xxx]1799

Jun 1999 Timon of Athens, by Shakespeare [1ws3711x.xxx]1798

Jun 1999 Coriolanus, by Shakespeare [1ws3611x.xxx]1797

Jun 1999 Antony and Cleopatra, by Shakespeare [1ws3511x.xxx]1796

Jun 1999 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [1ws34xxx.xxx]1795

Jun 1999 King Lear, by Shakespeare [1ws3311x.xxx]1794

Jun 1999 Othello, by William Shakespeare [1ws32xxx.xxx]1793

Jun 1999 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [1ws31xxx.xxx]1792

Jun 1999 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare [1ws3011x.xxx]1791

Jun 1999 Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare [1ws2911x.xxx]1790

Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ x.xxx]1789

RESERVED: 1788 will be "Sir John Oldcastle" coming from Tony Adam

Jun 1999 Hamlet, by Shakespeare [1ws2611x.xxx]1787

Jun 1999 As You Like It, by Shakespeare [1ws2511x.xxx]1786

Jun 1999 Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare [1ws2411x.xxx]1785

Jun 1999 King Henry V, by Shakespeare [1ws2311x.xxx]1784

Jun 1999 Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare [1ws2211x.xxx]1783

Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 2, by Shakespeare [1ws2111x.xxx]1782

Jun 1999 The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare [1ws2011x.xxx]1781

Jun 1999 King Henry IV, Part 1, by Shakespeare [1ws1911x.xxx]1780

Jun 1999 The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare [1ws1811x.xxx]1779

Jun 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Skakespeare [1ws17xxx.xxx]1778

Jun 1999 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [1ws16xxx.xxx]1777

Jun 1999 King Richard II, by Shakespeare [1ws1511x.xxx]1776

Jun 1999 King John, by Shakespeare [1ws1411x.xxx]1775

Jun 1999 Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare [1ws1211x.xxx]1774

Jun 1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare [1ws1111x.xxx]1773

Jun 1999 The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare [1ws1011x.xxx]1772

Jun 1999 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [1ws09xxx.xxx]1771

Jun 1999 King Edward III, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws50xxx.xxx]1770

Jun 1999 The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare [1ws0611x.xxx]1769

Jun 1999 King Richard III, by Shakespeare [1ws0411x.xxx]1768

Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1767

Jun 1999 RESERVED for More Shakepeare or Apocrypha [ xxx.xxx]1766

Jun 1999 Henry VI Part 1, by William Shakespeare [1ws01xxx.xxx]1765

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LIBRARY REMOVES SOFTWARE FILTERS Responding to a federal court's ruling that the Loudoun County (VA.) library's use of software filters to screen out sexually explicit material on the Internet was unconstitutional (Edupage 24 Nov 98), the Library Board has removed filters from some of its computers and left them on others; adults will decide whether they want to use a computer with a filter or one without, and parents of minors will be asked to sign a statement specifying whether or not they want their child to have unfiltered Internet access. Library patron Becky Montcastle-Jones urged the library board to appeal the court's ruling, saying: "We have not had pornographic or salacious material in our library. Why, just because we have new technology to get to it very quickly, should we have any different policy? In the video section, you can't go in there and get a pornographic movie. Librarians throughout history have had to make choices about what will be in the library. That's not censorship — that's choice." But board member Marc Leepson expressed the view of 6 out of the 8 board members: "I'm completely comfortable with the new policy. It's constitutional, and it still protects children." (Washington Post 3 Dec 98)

NBC ACQUIRES PART OF "WOMEN'S CONTENT" SITE Noting that women "happen to be the fastest-growing element on the Internet," an executive of the NBC television network has announced it will promote the iVillage Internet service, which he described as "the leading women's content site." NBC, in turn, will receive an ownership stake in that service, which now also provides information about parenting, families and health for special sites on Snap — an ad-supported Web site owned by NBC and C/NET. (USA Today 30 Nov 98)

NADER GROUP CHALLENGES AOL-NETSCAPE MERGER Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Project, a group run by long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader, says it will vigorously oppose the merger between America Online and Netscape. "We feel this will harm competition in the ISP market," says director James Love. "ISPs will have to go to Netscape or Microsoft for browser software. They compete against both and if they have to go to them to get software, it creates all kinds of problems." Love says his group plans to ask the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission to nix the merger. "We don't care if Netscape sells its company to anybody else but AOL or Microsoft." (TechWeb 25 Nov 98)

DOD FALSIFIED Y2K DATA BUT HAS "GOOD FEELING" ABOUT FUTURE A Department of Defense inspector-general report says that the Defense Special Weapons Agency never conducted required tests on three of five "mission critical" computer systems it had certified as Y2K-compliant. The military officer assigned to correct the agency's Year 2000 problems says he agrees with the report but that the systems in question will be "100% in compliance" by April 1999: "I have a good feeling about Y2K in this agency." (USA Today 27-29 Nov 98)

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This is PG's Newsletter for Wednesday, February 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

This Newsletter contains index entries for Etexts up to #1900 and thus PG has now completed about 19% of its primary goal of a production and distribution run of 10,000 easy to use Etexts.

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We are hoping to do a Spanish edition of Don Quixote for #2000, but we need your help. If you have any old editions of Don Quixote or know a person or institution that does, please let me know. We don't need to scan from the book, but we need one to do our copyright research from!

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Our newest site:

www.gutenberg.cyberxs.nl/ An ISP for younger internet users runs their own mirror. They hope to soon have the site search-engine enabled.

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Requests for assistance from our volunteers:

My sources show Legge "published monumental edition of "Chinese Classics", with translation, prolegomena, and notes [28 vols, 1861-86]. by James Legge Please reply to me and to Rick Davis

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"Does anyone have access to a first edition of 'Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino)' by Samuel Butler? I need to know what was in chapter X and also the last few paragraphs of the book. Any help would be appreciated, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk" David Price

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"Help Wanted: I am in the process of typing out the collection of Samuel Adams' writings gathered by H. A. Cushing (copyrighted 1904) and putting them on the web. Unfortunately, I do not own this collection, and must borrow it through the interlibrary loan. If anybody who either owns this work or can get it through your interlibrary loan system is interested in helping with this project, please contact me at: Regina Azucena so that we can coordinate the work. Also if anyone has access to a scanner with OCR, this would be especially helpful, since at present I am typing by hand and the work is rather slow. The collection preserves the original spelling of Samuel Adams which is not at all uniform, and this makes the typing slower. I would be happy to find out for you if the collection is available through a library in your area."

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The current issue of Information Week (1/11/99) has a review of three OCR products: Presto!, Textbridge, Omnipage. You can read it on-line at: http://www.informationweek.com/716/16olocr.htm

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Announcement: Lextek International has released an ebook viewer called InfoBlast designed to work especially with the ebooks produced by Project Gutenberg and several of the other online book projects.

InfoBlast will index the ebook files letting users conduct keyword, phrase, proximity, and wildcard searches. (InfoBlast can index literally 100's of megabytes quickly so no matter how big your ebook(s) are it is easy to set them up for searching.)

You can also bookmark passages of text using InfoBlast making them easy to find again. Searches are also saved as a history so you can easily go back to your past searches. InfoBlast has links to a number of the largest ebook download sites on the net (including Gutenberg.net) where you can freely obtain ebooks to use with InfoBlast.

InfoBlast is available for download from:

http://www.1source.com/~pollarda/textview/

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And now here are the PG Etexts concluding the run to #1900:

Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####

Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx]1900

Sep 1999 The Village Rector, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#79][vrctrxxx.xxx]1899

Sep 1999 Albert Savarus, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac #78][svrusxxx.xxx]1898

Sep 1999 The Seventh Man, by Max Brand [Max Brand #1][7thmnxxx.xxx]1897

Sep 1999 Under the Red Robe, by Stanley Weyman [Weyman #1][rdrobxxx.xxx]1896

Sep 1999 Armadale, by Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins #20][armdlxxx.xxx]1895

Sep 1999 Visit to Iceland, by Madame Ida Pfeiffer [IP #1] [vstilxxx.xxx]1894

Sep 1999 Song & Legend From the Middle Ages, by McClintocks[slfmaxxx.xxx]1893

Sep 1999 Extracts From Adam's Diary, by Mark Twain[Twain15][xadamxxx.xxx]1892

Sep 1999 A Plea for Old Cap Collier by Irvin S. Cobb[Cobb4][pfoccxxx.xxx]1891

Sep 1999 Speaking of Operations, by Irvin S. Cobb [Cobb #3][spoprxxx.xxx]1890

Sep 1999 Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan [bdnbrxxx.xxx]1889

Sep 1999 The Bittermeads Mystery, by E. R. Punshon [btrmmxxx.xxx]1888

Sep 1999 The Life of the Spider, by J. Henri Fabre [lfspdxxx.xxx]1887

Sep 1999 Bunyan Characters (2nd Series), by Alex. Whyte #2 [2bnchxxx.xxx]1886

Sep 1999 reserved for 1st #1 [1bnchxxx.xxx]1885

Sep 1999 The Exiles, by Honore de Balzac [H de Balzac #77][xilesxxx.xxx]1884

Sep 1999 The Wife, et al, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #14][twifexxx.xxx]1883

The stories contained in addition are:

Sep 1999 Difficult People, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #13][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 The Grasshopper, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #12][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 A Dreary Story, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #11][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 The Privy Councillor, by Anton Chekhov[Chekhov#10][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 The Man in Case, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #9][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 Gooseberries, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #8][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 About Love, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #7][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 The Lottery Ticket, by Anton Chekhov [Chekhov #6][twifexxx.xxx]1883

Sep 1999 The Young Forester, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #9][yn4stxxx.xxx]1882

Sep 1999 The Call of the Canyon, by Zane Grey[Zane Grey #8][tcotcxxx.xxx]1881

Sep 1999 The Pathfinder, by James Fenimore Cooper[Cooper#2][pthfnxxx.xxx]1880

Sep 1999 Royalty Restored, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy [rruc2xxx.xxx]1879

Sep 1999 London under Charles II, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy [rruc2xxx.xxx]1879

Sep 1999 A Millionaire of Yesterday, E. Phillips Oppenheim [mlystxxx.xxx]1878

Sep 1999 A Mountain Woman, by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #3][mtwmnxxx.xxx]1877

Sep 1999 The Shape of Fear, by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #2][tshfrxxx.xxx]1876

Sep 1999 Painted Windows by Elia W. Peattie [Peattie #1][pwndsxxx.xxx]1875

In addition, during the preparation of this Newsletter, we posted:

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

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From Edupage:

E-MAIL RESPONSES AT A SNAIL'S PACE A recent survey of Fortune 100 companies by e-mail software firm Brightware shows that many respondents allow e-mail to languish for days before responding to it. Four companies took a full week to respond to the question, "What is your corporate headquarters address?" (In one case, Hewlett-Packard took 23 days.) Rapid responders included Texaco, which responded within four minutes, and Albertson's and Costco, both of which responded within five minutes. Overall, fewer than 15% responded within three hours, and 26% either did not accept e-mail or made it so difficult to find e-mail information on their Web sites that a typical user probably would give up looking. (Los Angeles Times 18 Jan 99)

INTEL FLIPS SWITCH ON PENTIUM III'S I.D. FEATURE Responding to concerns by critics that the new Pentium III chip's unique serial number will allow the monitoring of an individual's moves throughout cyberspace, Intel has decided to alter the software so that the ID capability will be turned off unless the customer voluntarily turns it on to make a secure e-commerce transaction. (The original plan was to have the feature turned on unless the user took the trouble to turn it off.) But privacy advocates are not satisfied, and want the ID feature entirely disabled. Deirdre Mulligan of the Center for Democracy and Technology says, "If everybody's demanding it, it's going to be hard for a consumer to say no." (San Jose Mercury News 26 Jan 99)

LINUX USERS WANT THEIR MONEY BACK FROM MICROSOFT Aficionados of the Linux operating system, which is available for free, say they will demand their money back for Windows software installed against their wishes on PCs they buy. Their demand is based on a Windows licensing agreement that says that if the purchaser does not agree to the terms and conditions of use of the Windows software, he or she should promptly contact manufacturer for instructions on return of the unused product for a refund. Microsoft says that agreement applies only to the issues surrounding the of making copies of the software. (New York Times 25 Jan 99)

JUDGE EXTENDS BAN ON ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD PORN LAW U.S. District Court Judge Lowell A. Reed has extended his temporary ban on enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, and signaled in a lengthy memorandum that he considers the act an unconstitutional violation of First Amendment rights of free speech. To protect children from pornography transmitted through cyberspace, the federal Child Online Protection Act requires operators of commercial Web sites offering potentially objectionable material to establish a system to prevent minors from viewing that material. Judge Reed, a Reagan appointee, wrote: "Despite the Court's personal regret that this preliminary injunction will delay once again the careful protection of our children, I without hesitation acknowledge the duty imposed on the Court and the great good such duty serves. Indeed, perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection." (San Jose Mercury News 2 Feb 99)

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From other media:

ACTING DUMB, OR AT LEAST LEARNING IMPAIRED, GETS THE BIG BUCKS

Last night, Feb. 3, one of the major networks did an expose on the practice of the residents of Greenwich, Connecticut] which is perhaps best known as the richest community in the USA], of having their students get extra funding, extra tutoring, extra exam time [even on the SATs], by the simple expedient of dumb, or as it is politically correctly stated, "learning impaired," "learning disabled," etc. In addition to the above, they also get special entitlement and money for tuition that is cut out of the budgets for the rest of the students of Connecticut or/ and their regional school districts. If you have any details, or corroborations, please let us know, as our information came from sketchy notes taken from the live evening news broadcast. Connecticut was/is famous in this area for once having, at the same time, the highest per capita income AND the lowest amount spent per student in their public schools, possibly because of a trend to send all the rich kids to private schools, and then to refuse to fund the public schools. This should also have a corroboration, as I heard it from a Connecticut teacher.

Speaking of corroboration, I received a number of statements a "modem tax" as many seemed to call ANY fee associated with the increased phone rates for using modems, never has happened. I can tell you from my personal experience that I have been at a college where their telco actually charged for an entire extra line wherever any modem was installed. Apparently, they had a system that allowed voice ONLY on "normal" lines so the charge could not be avoided. Apparently our local telcos have tried, and failed, to get additional modem charges as well. But that note about the national bills for similar things apparently is a hoax. . .my apologies. . .I got it from someone I have known for years. . .and who will get an extra copy of this as email.

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And last, but certainly not least: for those of you receiving email from the LIBREF listserver about "Censorship," and "Free Speech," and a few other related topics. . .the reason you did not hear more about these is because my remarks, and, so I was told, those of several others, were. . .how to best put this:

"Censored. . . !"

My own censored remarks were only four lines replying to being compared to Austin Powers and other similar remarks, in which, I must say, I showed admirable restraint in NOT replying to an assortment of comments in bad taste, but only stating that the truth was that I am proud to be from the 60's, and of what the people of the 60's did; I won't repeat those simple four lines here, even if it may be true that their censors don't very far down toward the bottom of longer messages. However I will say that I did resend the note a second time, in response to their anonymous note saying they were putting an end to a discussion that had only had a half dozen notes over three days; I resent [this time a different word than resend] such anonymous notes, hiding behind the "moderator" login, and complained that their taste in posting the obviously in bad taste Austin Powers note was only exceeded by their refusing to post my very short, and very moderate reply. BTW, the last time LIBREF hosted message relays about free speech, the same thing happened, in terms of anonymous censorship. When I complained, they posted the note that had been censored, then, as I recall, still wanted to end the discussion with me having the last word. I send them that famous quote about:

I may not agree with what is being said, but I will defend, to the death, their right to say it.

They finally decided to let the conversation go on its own and the result was that it ended soon enough and simply enough w/o any interference from the "listowners" rather than moderators.

I wonder if we will have to go through all that again. . . .mh

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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 PG Newsletter for, Wednesday, March 3, 1999

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!!!

Contest:

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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It is now possible to get any Gutenberg File via Email. You simply send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with your request in the subject and the file is sent back as a MIME attachment. Please note, however, that your request must follow a specific syntax in order to be fulfilled properly. For a complete set of instructions send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with the word and only the word "help" in the subject. That's help not Help or HELP. Also, do not include the quotes. If you have any questions, feel free to Email Aaron Cannon

Lets say that you want the book Marten Hyde. Well that book is called mhyde10.txt and it is in the etext98 directory. To get via email, simply send a message to gutenberg@fireantproductions.com with a subject line of "get etext98 mhyde10.txt" without the quotes. So your message would look something like this:

From: you@yoursite.com To: gutenberg@fireantproductions.com Subject: get etext98 mhyde10.txt

The message body is ignored.

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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

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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300 days to the new Millennium, and still public estimates of the costs 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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