This is Project Gutenberg'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 Project Gutenberg has now completed about 19% of its primary goal of a production and distribution run of 10,000 easy to use Etexts. *** 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! *** 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. *** 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 *** "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 *** "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." *** 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 *** 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. 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InfoBlast is available for download from: http://www.1source.com/~pollarda/textview/ *** And now here are the Project Gutenberg 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 *** 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) Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading excerpts of-- to subscribe to Edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage Susan B. Anthony (if your name is Susan B. Anthony; otherwise use your own name To unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. If you have problems, send email to manager@educom.unc.edu.) "I love Edupage." mh Edupage is written by John Gehl (gehl@educom.edu), and Suzanne Douglas (douglas@educom.edu). USA Telephone: 770-590-1017 http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/pubHomeFrame.html Edupage is supported by Educom *** 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. *** 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 *** 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. 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