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Deja vu?
by John Hagerson 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Are we again on a Russian "free stuff here" page? I don't really know how to find out. Our requests from Russia and the other countries of the Former Soviet Union have suddenly jumped up.

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Request for bulk shipment
by John Hagerson 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Good morning, Fellow Gutenbergers! I have a request from India for 45 copies of the CD and 45 copies of the DVD. My correspondent states that he does not intend to sell anything, but he has this many friends and wants to present each one with a personal copy of the CD and DVD. I already suggested that he copy the contents of his discs on to each of his friends' computers, but he replied with the request to be able to present each friend with a personal copy. Before I respond to this request, I wanted to submit it to the list for comments and reaction. Please let me know what you think. John Hagerson

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Anyone feeling adventurous?
by Aaron Cannon 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Did anyone notice this comment left in the queue? "I'll be very grateful if you can call me on this number: +2348025312221. Thank you." Did anyone call? The request is from Nigeria, so I hope he isn't looking to become our business partner in a large financial transaction. :) Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- 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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The checked out queue
by John Hagerson 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

The checked out queue is quite long. I mailed this morning most of the requests I have checked out. I plan to register the progress later this evening. I'm sending this because I didn't want anyone to become concerned about a glitch (either software or wetware). If you have any questions, please let me know.

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another loop-hole plugged
by Aaron Cannon 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

If a person changed the capitalization of their e-mail address, they could successfully check in two or more requests with the same address. No more. Actually, I put some code in to prevent this when I first wrote the program, but apparently it didn't work. Thanks! Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- 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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Question regarding barrage of Chilean Requests
by John Hagerson 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

If you happen to drop by the requests list, we have had a recent influx from Chile. It appears that many of them have very short addresses. I have no idea if these addresses would work. I would expect to see the name of a city perhaps. Am I expecting too much? I don't want to waste a bunch of time, supplies, and money, but I don't want to disappoint a big group of interested people. I have a similar situation for a Colombian address as well. Both Chile and Colombia have postal web sites, but they are in Spanish and my ability to operate in that language is quite limited. Please let me know what you think. Thank you.

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Amazon offers 1082 volume Penguin Classics for $7,989
by John Hagerson 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/0632258&from=rss

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PG makes a BIG difference
by John Hagerson 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Out of sheer curiosity, I decided to Google an institution to which we are sending a copy of the PG CD and PG DVD. The information on the web site I found is dated 2001 and the name of the head of the college listed there is not the name of the person to whom the package is addressed. That said, however, the web site reports that their library contains 1000 books and 6 journals. Therefore, our DVD of 9400 books should vastly improve their library. Comments in the request indicate that the institution serves 1200 undergraduate students and faculty. Here is the web site: http://www.highereduwb.org/collegemain.php3?formvalue=23315&ctr=college.gif If we put this in the Newsletter, please keep any comments generic (and omit the web address) to avoid embarrassing the current head of this institution. Thank you.

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[Fwd: I need your help]
by Marcello Perathoner 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: I need your help Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:39:04 +0400 From: tradakad <tradakad(a)mail.ru> Reply-To: tradakad <tradakad(a)mail.ru> To: webmaster(a)gutenberg.org Hello! My name is Alexander, i'm 24 y.o. I'm from ukraine I want to ask for you some question. I want download some audio books from your site, but our firewall have some forbidens. I can't download *.mp3 :( I will very glad if you give me chance to download it with other extession (by example *.zip) , I very want to get it, because I need a prectic of my english, I want to improve my english. Can I wait for your help? please... best regards tradakad ------------------------------------------------ Alexander: sorry, we don't post zips for the mp3 files because mp3 files don't compress well. Maybe somebody with a fast internet access can mail those files to you if you tell us what you want. We have some very high quality human-read files of Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare. (We also have computer-generated files, but they are not good for learning English.) Look here and tell us what you want: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 ------ dvdvol: Are the human-read mp3s on the DVD? Is there any other way to get the human-read mp3 to Alexander? Mail them (somebody with a big pipe, I'm on DSL and sending all those files would be a PITA) or maybe burn a custom CD for him? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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A suggestion from a CD/DVD requester
by John Hagerson 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

I received a response to one of the automated messages generated by the CD/DVD fulfillment system. The note mentioned Digit, said to be the leading computer magazine in India, which is distributed each month with two CDs of content. I am of the opinion that my correspondent thinks that we could possibly distribute the Project Gutenberg CD through this magazine. I looked very briefly at their web site www.thinkdigit.com. It looks to me like an Indian version of PC World or another similar magazine. The monthly CDs appear to be a compilation of different resources, not the sole product of any one source. I doubt that we would want to, or could afford to, advertise in such a magazine. If they mentioned us, we would very likely be Slashdotted with an overwhelming number of requests. I'm passing this along because I said I would. Any thoughts? Have a great day! John Hagerson

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