Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:24:19 CST
From: Michael S. Hart <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>

This is the Shorter March Project Gutenberg Newsletter, email "dircompg@
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu for more information.  Four pages.

Project Gutenberg has been bringing you Free Electronic Texts since 1971
when there were only about 100 people on the Internet, we hope for more.

Project Gutenberg has reached number 250 in its goal to bring you 10,000
Etexts through the Electronic Public Library Association on the Internet
and off.  Many of the books we were planning on bringing you were voided
from the Public Domain by the 1975 US Copyright Act, and we were told we
would have to wait an additional 19 years for them at that time.

For instance, both Winnie-the-Pooh and Hemingway came out in the middle-
1920s, and should have entered the Public Domain no longer than 56 years
later under their orginal copyrights.  However, before that could happen
in the early 1980s, things were changed after the fact to make copyright
on these works last for an additional 19 years, for a 75 year total.

House Bill 989 and Senate Bill 483 are once again seeking to extend this
effort to keep materials out of the Public Domain, this time for another
20 years in addition to the first 28 year extension, the second 19 year,
and now another 20 years, for a total of 67 years of extensions on those
original 28 year copyright terms.

Enough said, it should be obvious that if laws such as this continued to
be passed every 20 years or so, that nothing will ever enter into Public
Domain status again and the work of people such as the Internet Wiretap,
the Online Book Initiative, and Project Gutenberg will soon be over, and
no literature or information newer than 1919 will ever be free to send a
whole world of people over the Internet.

Now that we finally have the capacity to create and distribute all these
materials for Unlimited Distribution, it is obvious there are efforts to
keep anyone from doing it.  As I have said so many times before, "We are
all going to have the ability to store the Library of Congress on drives
that will be available during our lifetimes. . .but I am not sure that a
society based on Limited Distribution will let us do it."

You may notice that the newest item on this list may help you to voice a
personal opinion about this to Congress, and I urge you to do so whether
your vote is pro or con.

I have just completed 24 years on the Internet, and 48 years on Earth; I
would ask any of you who would be willing to give me a birthday present,
on having completed 2/3 of my expected lifetime, to make some effort for
the continuation of works such as Project Gutenberg in our future.  This
will do more to improve the human condition than anything else I can do.


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

Apr 1995 United States Congressional Address Book, 1995    [usconxxx.xxx] 251
Apr 1995 A Brief History of the Internet by Michael S. Hart[bhotixxx.xxx] 250-
Apr 1995 French Cave Paintings [10X Older Dead Sea Scrolls][cavepxxx.xxx] 249
Apr 1995 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [2nd 100 Pages]   [wbstrxxb.xxx] 248-
Apr 1995 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [1st 100 Pages]   [wbstrxxa.xxx] 247-
Apr 1995 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam tr by Edw. Fitzgerald [rubaixxx.xxx] 246
Apr 1995 Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain [Twain #10][lmissxxx.xxx] 245
Apr 1995 A Study In Scarlet, A. Conan Doyle [Doyle #4]     [studyxxx.xxx] 244
Apr 1995 The Forged Coupon by Count Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy#1][forgdxxx.xxx] 243
Apr 1995 My Antonia, by Willa Cather [Cather #4]           [myantxxx.xxx] 242
Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241
Apr 1995 Stories From The Old Attic, by Robert Harris      [sftoaxxx.xxx] 240C

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carrying the Project Gutenberg Etexts.  As always, the final
authority is mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, but we would thank you to
try at lease a couple of these before trying us because this
site is getting grossly overloaded sometimes, and even I can
not get in all the time to put in the new Etexts.


New Listings:

http://www.technet.sg/singapore-server.html

http://www.np.ac.sg:9080

nptn.org cd /pub/e.text/gutenberg
192.190.49.8

The College Board BBS in Sunset, SC
(803) 878-7340?

This list is far from complete, and undoubtedly inaccurate!!
Any corrections, additions or deletions would be appreciated
very much, and included in later listings.  Locations of the
servers would be nice, so people could increase efficiency a
little bit for the Internet as whole.  I have entered some--
but don't know them all.

Included first are US ftp sites, then world ftp sites.
Next are BBSs for the US and the world.

If anyone would care to volunteer to maintain this list just
let me know.

In the United States ftp to the following:
deneva.sdd.trw.com = 129.193.173.1  LA Area, California
etext.archive.umich.edu = 192.131.22.7  Michigan
ftp.etext.org  (192.131.22.8)  [connects to etext.archive.umich.edu]
cd /pub/Gutenberg
wcarchive.cdrom.com:/pub/gutenberg [192.216.191.11] Bay Area, California
ftp.wustl.edu = wuarchive.wustl.edu = 128.252.135.4, St. Louis, MO
nptn.org = 192.190.49.8
oak.oakland.edu = 141.210.10.117 Michigan
quake.think.com = 192.31.181.1
think.com = 131.239.2.1
ftp.uu.net  (192.48.96.9)
/doc/literary/gutenberg/etext93
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
cd pub/docs/books
inforM.umd.edu Maryland
calypso-2.oit.unc.edu (198.86.40.81) North Carolina
cd /pub/docs/books
halcyon.com (198.137.231.1)
/dec/.0/data


Canada:
Many, but far from all, are available at Mindlink.bc.ca.  Login as guest


Austria

ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:/pub/gutnberg


England and UK

unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/doc/literary/gutenberg/etext94

src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/media/literary/collections/project_gutenberg


France

ftp.cnam.fr:/pub2/Gutenberg
ftp.cnam.fr = 163.173.128.6

ftp.loria.fr:/pub/textes/obi/Gutenberg

The Data Zone BBS
phone: +33-1-39706456
Fidonet 2:320/218


Germany
alice.fmi.uni-passau.de    (132.231.1.180)
cd /pub

wrzx02.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de:/pub/text/gutenberg




Japan
ftp news3.yasuda-u.jp.ac  ??
cd users/pub/gutenberg/etext91, 92, 93, 94


In Singapore
[BBS is mostly in Chinese]
www.technet.sg

Sweden
ftp.sunet.se    (130.238.127.3)
cd /pub/etext


Taiwan
ftp.edu.tw = nctuccca.edu.tw = 140.111.1.10 &  192.83.166.10


BBS's and Gophers

Connecticut
Sea of Noise
+1 203 886 1441
1200-28800 bps (v.FC)

Sweden
Tanken FAMS BBS is located in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. Phone +46-8-6566827.
The BBS is open 24h/d to everyone at no fee whatsoever, e-mail, mailftp, etc.
The modem used is an ZyXEL U1496E; v32b, v42b, ZyXEL's own 16.8kbps standard.

LINCOLN'S CABIN BBS - 415/752-4490  (8-N-1)  San Francisco, CA
Login:  project gutenberg   Password:  guest

The Black Forest BBS (919)787-6198
Quality Weird People (919)571-7252.

Gutenberg is found in the gopher server "UM-GOPHERBLUE" maintained
by the University of Michigan.  I get to by dialing 313-998-1303
( a 9600 baud server line) then specifying UM-GOPHERBLUE in response
to the "which host" prompt.  This is a free service requiring no
id or fee beyond the price of the phone call.  Other phone lines are
listed in menus available under "help" to "which host?" prompt.

New World BBS 1-701-282-4308 14.4kps North Dakota
Will someone please verify this, the areacode and location?

Bitter Butter Better BBS   Oregon  1-503-620-0307   Fidonet 1:105/290
1200-14,400bps. Almost all titles, archived with ARJ. Free access.


Thank you,

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Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
hart@uiucvmd.bitnet and hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu

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