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JULY 1999

*This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Wednesday, July 7, 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.*

***This is Project Gutenberg's 29th Fourth of July on the Internet!*** **Help us celebrate by keeping us alive as a continuing institution!**

We have about 50 Etext releases for you in this Newsletter!

With so many entering the Etext field this year, we are one endangered species I don't think the world can do as well without. . .everyone is saying they can put a million Etexts online, but none of them actually have DONE even a thousand. . .they mostly just copy from others. . .as much as I *LIKE* having our files copied around the world. . .I do NOT want that to be our undoing. . .if you can help, please read below!!!!

There are nearly 50 new Etexts listed below, all but one produced by a volunteer corps at Project Gutenberg; you won't find that kind of text production anywhere else, and we are now in our 29th year of doing it.

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

Anniversary News Items:

1. More Languages [Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, DNA. . .more.] 2. The Human Genome Project [11% complete at 375 Megabytes] 3. We need help getting incorporated as a 501 (C) 3, need a lawyer. [We had a volunteer lawyer, but lost email contact] 4. We need help getting major grants. . .grant writers needed! 5. We need help with Public Relations. . .I lost the address of our new PR person in the big crash, please email me again! 6. New site at: www.instinct.org/gutenberg/ 7. New source for Project Gutenberg CDROMs. 8. We have a new German/Fraktur Team. . .and we need volunteers. 9. We still need help finished up Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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But First. . .Current Requests for Assistance From Our Volunteers:

1. We still need PERL writers, and I lost my list of them in the crash.

2. The 1999 CIA World Factbook should be completed just about now; if any of you can send me a copy, it would be greatly appreciated.

3. We may still need more proofers for Anna Karenina; will those currently working on it please contact me.

4. We have a copy of Martin Luther's publication of the Bible, in German fractur. . .and will need some serious help on it. . . . I would LIKE to think there is already an Etext of it available, if anyone can help us find it.

5. From: "Whiting, Jenifer" <[email protected]> A request for the text "The Flying Inn" by G.K. Chesterton Most likely found in older editions in UK and Australia, but any edition that credits its content as originally from before 1923 will do just fine. Her copy was stolen, along with lots of other things, in a car break in. . .mh [I think we have a copy coming, but this was not confirmed]

6. I am working on a 4 volume collection of Samuel Adams' writings (H. A. Cushing, ed., 1904). The collection covers the years 1764-1802.

I would like to thank Richard Fane and Daniel Moore for all their work getting volume III done, and half of volume IV. We can still use several scanners and especially proofreaders in order to be able to do volumes I and II.

Even a few pages of proofreading would be helpful.

If you can help, please email me: Regina Azucena <[email protected]>

7. The Human Genome Project: we are going to need volunteers to help us with this, unless we can find a way to FTP those 24 chromosomes directly into our /etext00 directories. . .*these* files are large. . .more details below.

[Different Numbering System for Requests than other items]

8. Found an etext of The Golden Bowl by Henry James, http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/goldenbowl1.html If anyone can find a pre-1923 matching paper edition, then we can post it.

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1. More Languages [Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, DNA. . .more.]

1. We would LOVE to post one file in a language we have not worked with before in each of the remaining months of 1999, and perhaps in 2000, if we can. No matter what format, we are willing to post it, but would also like to post in the simplest possible format as well . . .when this is possible. We may still need help with posting our Swedish and Danish Bibles. . .just to make sure we haven't mangled the files.

2. The Human Genome Project [11% complete at 375 Megabytes]

2. If you would like to join our Human Genome Project Team, please email Eliana Brown at one of the following, and cc:me Eliana Brown <[email protected]><[email protected]> We need help getting them to prairienet.org, and perhaps with putting the headers on them. . .the files are large. . .and we don't have an easy internal way to get them there. . .thanks!

We have successfully downloaded our first chromosomes, and the smallest one we could, the Y chromosome, is 3.5 Megabytes. We have reserved 26 slots for June, 2000, for the 24 files and a few instructions and commentaries on how to read and use them. This will eventually total some 3.38 Gigabytes, so we could use some programming help to create a compression program that would take only 2 bits to store any of the GATC amino acids, and would unpack them for our readers. . .otherwise this one item will at least quadruple the size of Project Gutenberg. Zip is currently compressing at 70%, I have not tried the higher compression zip options yet. . . . However, even if we represented each character with two bits, it would be hard to get much beyond 75%, unless we used a particularly good algorithm. We tried one combination of our own plus zip and got 77%. . .not sure if worth the hassle.

3. We need help getting incorporated as a 501 (C) 3, need a lawyer. [We had a volunteer lawyer, but lost email contact]

This would probably be done in Illinois, and it is obvious we need to do this, or we won't get the donations required to do more than our original goal of 10,000 books. . .we are currently doing Etext at a rate that will reach 3,333 by the end of 2001. . .not bad for an unincorporated bunch of volunteers whose Executive Director has not had any paychecks for 6 months and probably won't for the next 6 months, and went through this same situation only two years ago.

4. We need help getting major grants. . .grant writers needed!

We will get our 10,000 Etexts done, whether we receive any funding of a major nature or not, but we could do 1,000,000 Etexts in just 20 more years, if we could get some 10 million dollar grants. The truth is that if we are going to spend time on other than Etext, I would prefer that we go all out in this direction.

5. We need help with Public Relations. . .I lost the address of our new PR person in the big crash, please email me again! We have an excellent opportunity to be the cover story on the Sunday Supplement of a very major newspaper, very shortly. We did the preliminary interview last weekend, and we should also prepare a press release for our 2,000th Etext, Human Genome, and our new language efforts. Which reminds me, we may still need help with Swedish and Danish.

6. You may want to try our new site at: www.instinct.org/gutenberg/

7. From Daniel Meyers: Here's what I'm ready to offer. The most up-to-date possible, full texts from Project Gutenberg on a two CD set for $39.95 (+$5.00 S/H). Interested parties should send e-mail to [email protected] and they will be notified when and where they can order on-line.

Project Gutenberg will receive $34.95 of the above amount. Major credit cards and checks will be accepted.

8. We have a new German/Fraktur Team. . .and we need volunteers. Mike Pullen <[email protected]> German and Fraktur Team

9. We still need help finished up Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Please contact me if you can find any edition from before 1923.

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This past, as in most months, we have made noticeable corrections to files:

Dec 1998 The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice LeBlanc [cstprxxx.xxx]1563

Dec 1998 Timaeus, by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Translator #3 [tmeusxxx.xxx]1572

Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx]2082

Mar 1998 The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #2][1muskxxx.xxx]1257

Mar 1998 Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas [Pere #4][3muskxxx.xxx]1259

Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054

Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx]1987

Each of the above files has a version 11 now posted, our files get a higher # when we have made enough corrections to call it a revised edition. . .if your system supports FTP [File Transfer Protocol] you can find ALL our corrections by just searching for filename ?????11.*, 12.*, 13,*, etc.

Here Are The New Etexts Presented On Our 28th Anniversary and Extras!!

Feb 2000 Tao Hua Yuan Ji, by Tao YuanMing [Chinese/English][peachxxx.xxx]2090

Feb 2000 Peach Blossom Shangri-la, by Tao YuanMing [short] [peachxxx.xxx]2090

Feb 2000 The Reception of the Origin of Species, T H Huxley[oroosxxx.xxx]2089

Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II [#8][2llcdxxx.xxx]2088

2088 is Reserved for ^^^^^^^^ Feb 2000 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I [#7][1llcdxxx.xxx]2087

Feb 2000 The Slowcoach, by E. V. Lucas [slwchxxx.xxx]2086

mary starr <[email protected]> Feb 2000 Cyropaedia, by Xenophon [Transl. H. G. Dakyns] #14[cyrusxxx.xxx]2085

Feb 2000 The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler [Butler#3][wflshxxx.xxx]2084

Feb 2000 In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne [JV#11][cstwyxxx.xxx]2083

^^^This version includes some markup, need volunteers to unmark to plain text

Feb 2000 Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by Lamothe-Langon[dbrryxxx.xxx]2082

by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon, using a pseudonym***** Version 10 is the binary version with French accents. Version 11 is the Plain Vanilla ASCII version without accents.

Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx]2081

Feb 2000 Later Poems, by Alice Meynell[2 books/1 file][#10][2almyxxx.xxx]2080

Feb 2000 Flower of the Mind, by Alice Meynell [Maynell #9][2almyxxx.xxx]2080

Feb 2000 Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman[moamfxxx.xxx]2079

From the Memoirs of a Minister of France, by Stanley Weyman [Weyman #4]

Feb 2000 Thais, by Anatole France, Trans. by Douglas [AF#2][thaisxxx.xxx]2078

Feb 2000 The Nabob, by Alphonse Daudet Transl. W. Blaydes [nabobxxx.xxx]2077

Feb 2000 The Civilization of China, by Herbert A. Giles [cvchnxxx.xxx]2076

Feb 2000 Crotchet Castle, by Thomas Love Peacock[Peacock#2][ccstlxxx.xxx]2075

Feb 2000 Civilization of Renaissance in Italy, J Burckhardt[coriixxx.xxx]2074

Feb 2000 The Valet's Tragedy et al, by Andrew Lang[Lang#22][vlttrxxx.xxx]2073

Contains stories about The Man In The Iron Mask, etc. . . . Feb 2000 Michael, by E. F. Benson [mikelxxx.xxx]2072

Feb 2000 Stories by English Authors in Germany, Scribners [sbeagxxx.xxx]2071

Includes: The Bird On Its Journey, by Beatrice Harraden Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life, by John Strange Winter A Dog of Flanders, by Ouida Markheim, by Robert Louis Stevenson Queen Tita's Wager, by William Black

Feb 2000 To The Last Man, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #12][lstmnxxx.xxx]2070

Feb 2000 The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Pinches [xrbaaxxx.xxx]2069

^^^^Available as both 7-bit version 7rbaa10.* and 8-bit version 8rbaa10.*^^^^ Feb 2000 Keziah Coffin, by Joseph C. Lincoln [kziacxxx.xxx]2068

Feb 2000 Beasts, Men and Gods, by F. Ossendowski [bmgdsxxx.xxx]2067

Feb 2000 Wildfire, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey #11][wldfrxxx.xxx]2066

Feb 2000 Dick Hamiliton's Airship, by Howard R. Garis [arshpxxx.xxx]2065

Feb 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Saumeul Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx]2064

[A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [Johnson #3]] was listed as 2038

Feb 2000 The Trail of the White Mule, by B.M. Bower[BMB#11][tttwmxxx.xxx]2063

Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx]2062

Feb 2000 Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde[Oscar Wilde22][wldspxxx.xxx]2061

Feb 2000 The History of Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford [cvthkxxx.xxx]2060

Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx]2059

Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx]2058

Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx]2057

Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx]2056

Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx]2055

**Extras From Future Collections We Will Be Posting In Coming Months**

We have posted the following Chromosomes from the Human Genome Project Be advised, we have started with the smallest files, which will update the most often, but we will probably update only every few months. In our header is information on how to update the files yourself, if your interest requires the very latest information. WARNING!!! Totals 36M if you download both the .txt and .zip files of these 6 "small" files.

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [#24] [0yhgpxxx.xxx]2224

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 10 [10hgpxxx.xxx]2210

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 09 [19hgpxxx.xxx]2209

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 08 [08hgpxxx.xxx]2208

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 03 [03hgpxxx.xxx]2203

Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 02 [02hgpxxx.xxx]2202

[WARNING: These files are not complete, and have at least one error. . .that being in chromosome 2. . .a sequence of NNN's around line 14975. . . .]

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 8 [08frdxxx.xxx]2108

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 [07frdxxx.xxx]2107

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 6 [06frdxxx.xxx]2106

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 5 [05frdxxx.xxx]2105

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 4 [04frdxxx.xxx]2104

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 3 [03frdxxx.xxx]2103

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 2 [02frdxxx.xxx]2102

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 1 [01frdxxx.xxx]2101

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

Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx]2046

Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241 Also see our previous releases, based on a separate source editions^

TO TURN ELECTRONIC PAPER INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCT Though emphasizing "it won't be on the market in the next year," an executive of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center says that Xerox and 3M have signed a manufacturing agreement intended to turn electronic paper into a commercial product, to be used in such applications as electronic newspapers capable of adding late-breaking news as you read them. Like a computer screen but not much thicker than ordinary paper and almost as flexible, electronic paper uses "gyricon" display technology developed at Xerox PARC about ten years ago. You'll (eventually) be able to write on it with a wand or stylus or to put it through a computer printer. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 29 Jun 99) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/065761.htm

"PC AS SIMPLE AS A TOASTER" - THE $199 iToaster A personal computer called the iToaster (because its developers say it's as simple to operate as a toaster) will use the BeOS operating system, rather than Microsoft's Windows. Priced at $199 (without a monitor) and manufactured by Microworkz.com in Seattle, the iToaster will offer word processing, home finance, and Web browsing software, and will have a graphical interface. The company is reportedly in talks with America Online about potential cross-marketing arrangements. (MSNBC 21 Jun 99, http://www.msnbc.com/news/282421.asp and USA Today 25 Jun 99 http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf470.htm )

THE FIGHT OVER INTERNET DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION Those who want to see the business of domain name registration opened up to competition will have to wait at least three weeks longer, as tensions build among the three major players in the discussion. Those players are: first, the Clinton Administration; second, Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization the Administration created to assume responsibility for Internet administration; and, third, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), the private company which since 1993 has had the exclusive worldwide right to assign all Internet addresses ending with the suffixes .com, .net, or .org. NSI is refusing to sign the contract Icann has developed, saying it gives more Icann more power than the Administration had intended; in particular, NSI is claiming sole ownership to the rights of its database of more than 5 million registered domain names. Commerce Department staffer Becky Burr is optimistic that the dispute will be resolved soon: "I believe it is in everybody's best interest not to swing threats around." In the meantime, Icann interim president Mike Roberts notes, "It's great political theater." (New York Times 28 Jun 99)

IS THERE A SHORTAGE OF INFO TECH PROFESSIONALS? A survey conducted on the Web site of Computer magazine to determine attitudes about the shortage of information technology professionals found that 54% of the 84 respondents believe that such a shortage indeed exists and that liberal immigration policies are generally a good idea; 36% deny that there's a shortage, and are convinced that corporate America is simply claiming one so that it can import less expensive workers instead of investing in the U.S. workforce. The rest of the respondents say that the global economy has created a new and complex problem which requires new kinds of solutions. (Computer May/Jun 99) http://www.computer.org/computer/bcsummary.htm

"WHO WANTS TO KNOW?" (CUSTOMIZED HISTORY FROM ENCARTA) Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the nine different editions of Microsoft's Encarta multimedia encyclopedia sometimes give different answers to the same question. For example, the U.S., U.K, and German editions say the inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell, whereas the Italian version says the inventor was the impoverished Italian-American candle maker Antonio Meucci. Other editions vary on who invented the electric light bulb, who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, and other such things. Microsoft says its editorial teams are made up of local experts, and company chief executive Bill Gates argued in 1997: "In the long run, exposing people to worldwide perspectives should be healthy. Americans benefit from a better understanding of the Asian or European view of important cultural and scientific events, and vice versa."

TRACKING ANONYMOUS SPAM If you hate getting all those "Make Money Fast At Home!!!" messages from people who use hard-to-trace or false return addresses, you might want to use the services of www.spamcop.net, a Web site that allows you to take action against unsolicited junk e-mail messages sent out in bulk quantities. Spam Cop is able to dissect the header information on such messages, identify where they've come from, and send a message of complaint to the network administer of the Internet service provider the spammer is using. (New York Times Circuits Section 24 Jun 99) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/circuits/articles/24spam.html

Those were excerpts from: NewsScan <[email protected]> www.newsscan.com/, and send us mail: John Gehl <[email protected]> and Suzanne Douglas <[email protected]>, or call 770-590-1017.

THREE WEEK DELAY IN OPENING UP INTERNET NAME REGISTRATION The process to open the registration of Internet domain names to competition has been delayed three weeks due to continued tensions between the Clinton administration, monopoly-holder Network Solutions, and would-be overseer ICANN. Many have accused ICANN of abusing its power, particularly by holding closed meetings and by assigning a $1 annual fee to every domain name registered. Many were also angered by ICANN's threat to terminate Network Solutions' authority to register new Internet addresses, although ICANN has since admitted that only the Commerce Department holds that authority. Government officials such as Virginia's Representative Thomas J. Bliley and Governor James Gilmore, as well as lobbyists on behalf of Network Solutions, have demanded investigations into the process of choosing board members and ICANN's authority to charge the $1 fee. Other major issues to be resolved include the question of ownership regarding Network Solutions' user database, the terms of ICANN's authority, and the prices that businesses must pay Network Systems to administer the central registry. (New York Times 06/28/99)

TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER LAYS PLANS FOR AN INTERNET UNIVERSITY Academic publishing house Harcourt General is joining the growing business of distance education. It plans to expand its online offerings with three ventures: Harcourt University; an Internet high school for students planning to take high-school equivalency exams; and an e-commerce site called Harcourt.com. Through its university, Harcourt may become the first major publishing house to offer accredited college degrees, pending approval from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Yet Harcourt faces much opposition, particularly from college professors concerned that Internet-based education denies students the personal interaction central to a traditional learning experience. University bookstores and other traditional distributors may also oppose the venture because it competes with their sales. Last, Harcourt will face strong competition from the companies and universities already providing online courses. Harcourt maintains that its educational offerings will be unique. Its university, which may begin to offer courses by September 2000, will teach a range of subjects in arts and sciences. (Wall Street Journal 07/02/99)