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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael S. Hart)
Thu Jan 15 21:08:05 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:24:32 -0600
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
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The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January 1, 1998
[We will hold off sending this for a week so it will
not clog your mailboxes during the holidays. . . . ]
1997 was the first year we did not double production
of Etexts in quite some time, but on the other hand,
it was the first year other Etexts producers created
enough Etexts that our goal of getting 10,000 Etexts
online by the end of the year 2001 is still viable--
presuming we can gain some reciprocity with them, in
the matter of posting each other's Etexts.
Many of these other Etext operations have taken some
different approaches to the creation or distribution
of Etexts than anyone might have envisioned just the
smallest number of years ago, from the changing of a
few words here and there to attempt to copyright the
Etexts posted on their sites, to simply requesting a
voluntary situation in which no one reposts the file
even though it is admittedly in the Public Domain.
This has been caused by the manners in which the Web
services propagate their own existence:
Hits have become the currency of the World Wide Web!
Therefore, in order to give full reciprocity to this
array of Web sites that think of hits as currency we
have to create hit counters that can be mounted on a
variety of Project Gutenberg sites and will monthly,
or even weekly, relay the proper number of hits to a
site whose Etexts we are distributing to the world.
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While I was out on the West Coast in November, I got
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and more versatile hard drive systems for the upload
and download of our files. If you are sending us an
Etext, just ask for the new locations if the ones we
have been using are not working properly. The login
and password system for at least one of the new site
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1998 is the first year I will be putting any serious
efforts into the administrative area known simply as
Schmoozing
If you could suggest anyone I should contact to work
on getting support for Project Gutenberg, please let
me know, as it has become very obvious to me that it
is not going to be that much longer that I can be an
overly central figure in Project Gutenberg. If this
project is going to continue 10,000, 1,000, 100, 10,
or even five years from now it is going to take more
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Once again my HUGE THANKS to all of you who help our
efforts to combat ignorance and illiteracy.
And here are the 32 December Project Gutenberg Etexts
which conclude the 384 Etexts for 1997. We will make
/etext98 directories shortly, and will advise you how
to get the files from them when we announce 32 Etexts
for January, about a month from now.
Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext]####
A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work.
Dec 1997 The Story of the Volsungs [re: Wagner's "Ring"] [vlsngxxx.txt]1152
Dec 1997 The Nibelungenlied [Another Source for The Ring] [nblngxxx.txt]1151
Dec 1997 The Danish History/Books I-IX, by Saxo Grammaticus[dnhstxxx.txt]1150
Dec 1997 From London to Land's End, by Daniel Defoe [DD #6][lndlexxx.txt]1149
Dec 1997 Itineray of Baldwin in Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis [itwlsxxx.txt]1148
Dec 1997 From This World to the Next, by Henry Fielding #2[jtwtnxxx.txt]1147
Dec 1997 Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding #1[jlsbnxxx.txt]1146
Dec 1997 Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope [See Zenda]# [rprhnxxx.xxx]1145
Dec 1997 In the Cage, by Henry James [Henry James #16] [incagxx.xxx]1144
Dec 1997 Notes on Life and Letters, by Joseph Conrad [#19] [ntlflxx.xxx]1143
Dec 1997 Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #18] [typhnxx.xxx]1142
Dec 1997 Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #17] [spoowxx.xxx]1141
Dec 1997 Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle[Carlyle #4][latdaxx.xxx]1140
Dec 1997 Fisherman's Luck, by Henry van Dyke [Van Dyke #3][fshlkxx.xxx]1139
Dec 1997 The Research Magnificent, by H.G. Wells [Wells #13][rschmxx.xxx]1138
Dec 1997 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws44xx.xxx]1137
Dec 1997 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws42xx.xxx]1136
Dec 1997 Tempest, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws41xx.xxx]1135
Dec 1997 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws40xx.xxx]1134
Dec 1997 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws39xx.xxx]1133
Dec 1997 The Life of Timon of Athens, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws37xx.xxx]1132
Dec 1997 The Tragedy of Coriolanus, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws36xx.xxx]1131
Dec 1997 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws35xx.xxx]1130
Dec 1997 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws34xx.xxx]1129
Dec 1997 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws32xx.xxx]1128
Dec 1997 Othello, The Moor of Venice, by Shakespeare [WL][1ws32xx.xxx]1127
Dec 1997 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws31xx.xxx]1126
Dec 1997 All's Well that End's Well, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws30xx.xxx]1125
Dec 1997 History of Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws29xx.xxx]1124
Dec 1997 Twelfth Night; or What You Will, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws28xx.xxx]1123
Dec 1997 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws26xx.xxx]1122
Dec 1997 As You Like It, William Shakespeare [World Library][1ws25xx.xxx]1121
I am currently caught up with 80% of the email, and should do another 10%
each day for the rest of the week, thus keeping some promises that I will
be caught up by the end of the week, at least with email. This will make
the rest of the month run at posting two Etexts per day, which I can do--
if nothing major comes up.
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We are currently creating the /etext98 directories, so those of you doing
mirrors of our etexts should make sure that it comes up on your systems.
This particular note is going out on a number of listservers, including a
new gutnberg listserver at the University of North Carolina, whom we will
be indebted to for the duration. A separate message will go out in a day
or two, reviewing 1997, and another message will go to the volunteers. I
would NOT use THIS message to conclude whether you are on our listserver.
We will keep you updated on the new listservers and fileservers as things
get underway for 1998.
Again our thanks to all those who have helped us get this far, and thanks
to those who will be helping us through 1998!
Thanks!
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Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
Benedictine University [Illinois Benedictine]
Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Scientist
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