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Fwd: Re: Notification of Payment Received
by Aaron Cannon 17 Apr '05

17 Apr '05

>Delivered-To: cd(a)pglaf.org >Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:16:12 -0700 >From: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> >To: Nat Howard <nrh(a)pupworks.com> >Cc: Project Gutenberg CDs <cd(a)pglaf.org> >Subject: Re: Notification of Payment Received >User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i > >On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:05:06AM -0500, Nat Howard wrote: > > I'm delighted you got my donation. I don't know if you have any sort > > of "what people are doing with our stuff" gallery, but in case you > > do... > >Hi, Nat. Sorry for not responding earlier. We're really >happy you're making such good use of the CD! I'm cc'ing >the CD/DVD team for their enjoyment. > >Best, > Greg Newby > > > > > I took the project Gutenberg CD and unpacked it. Then I put the CD > > contents into a subdirectory and put my own index.htm file and some > > video in the new top level and burned new CD's. Then I made labels that > > said "Howard Holiday Computer CD 2004/~600 Old Books!" and, of course, > > "Thanks to Project Gutenberg" . The new index.htm contained my > > family's greetings, credited Project Gutenberg, and pointed to the old > > index.htm, of course! > > > > Recipients generally react with puzzlement and then delight to the > > disk. I don't think people appreciate the wealth of the public domain. > > If they did, I suspect pro-copyright-extension lobbyists would have a > > much harder time. > > > > So the disk has been a perfect "stocking-stuffer" kind of gift -- we > > sent them around instead of greeting cards! > > > > Thanks for making my Christmas gift giving cheap & (relatively) easy! > > > > > > On Jan 22, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Greg Newby wrote: > > > > >Dear Nathaniel: > > > > > >Thanks for your donation to Project Gutenberg! > > > > > >Your donation has been received. We appreciate your > > >support of Project Gutenberg, and are happy that you > > >value free online electronic books. > > > > > >If you haven't already, please visit http://www.gutenberg.net > > >for information about our latest eBooks, how to volunteer, > > >and other news and events. > > > > > >Tell a friend about Project Gutenberg, or just give > > >them an eBook...or a few thousand eBooks...from the > > >Project Gutenberg collection. > > > > > >Thanks again! > > > > > > > > >Sincerely, > > > > > >Prof. Michael S. Hart Gregory B. Newby, Ph.D > > >Project Coordinator and Founder Director and Chief Executive > > >Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Literary Archive > > >Fdn. -- E-mail: cannona(a)fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona(a)hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)

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Removal of /public/html/gutenberg
by Marcello Perathoner 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

The old directory /public/html/gutenberg on ibiblio will be removed on April 14. If you did edit files in the old directory after Feb 23 you may have to copy them to the new directory /public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html . -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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