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Fwd: PR Stuff. . . .
by Aaron Cannon 21 May '05

21 May '05

I was cleaning my inbox and I found this message from a long time ago. Does anyone know if these were ever done? If not, is anyone interested? >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:06:08 -0700 (PDT) >From: Michael Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> >Reply-To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart(a)pobox.com> >To: Aaron Cannon <cannona(a)fireantproductions.com> >Subject: PR Stuff. . . . > > >Aaron, would you please send one of our CD/DVD sets to >these two addresses? > >I'm working on a Press Kit page to include when we send >to major media outlets. I'm also going to include a few >other addresses below that you might try someday, with or >without such a Press Kit included. > > >Robert Altman >502 Park Ave #15G >NY, NY 10022 > > >Robert Altman >c/o ICM >Attn: Ken Kamins >8942 Wilshire >Beverly Hills, CA >90211 > > >HI, you might remember me, from the WIRED 25, the fellow in the >Cat in the Hat hat. . .we met in the decommissioned monastery >above Sunset Boulevard where we received our Wired 25 awards, >back in November, 1998 You gave me your email address, but I >think it's changed since then. > >My award was for creating Project Gutenberg, a collection of eBooks, >and I promised you I would send 10,000 eBooks when that was possible. > >Here are two discs, one a CD, with about 3,400 eBooks, and the other >is a DVD with about 9,400. > >While there is much duplication between these two, we DO have enough >eBooks online now for that many individual eBooks, though some are >too large to easily be included here. > >Oprah Winfrey c/o >Harpo Productions >P. O. Box 909715 >Chicago, IL 60607 > >Today Show >30 Rockefeller Plaza >New York, NY 10112 > >Jay Leno/Tonight Show >3000 W. Alameda Ave. >Burbank, CA 91523 > >The View, Attention >Bill Geddie, etc. >320 West 66th Street >New York, NY 10023 > >I'll be adding more of these as time goes on. > >Thanks!!!!!!! > >Michael > -- 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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Customs declaration
by Donald Arnold 15 May '05

15 May '05

Is anyone else having to complete the customs forms? I was told I had to do one today on a package to Canada. I have never been told anything about this before by the Postal Service people. Now I am wondering if any of the DVDs or CDs that I mailed without Customs forms have reached their destinations. I suppose I should fill them out regardless just to be on the safe side. Any thoughts or ideas from the group? Don Arnold

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heads up
by Aaron Cannon 15 May '05

15 May '05

A couple people in the last couple weeks have received the wrong discs (I.E. DVDs instead of CDs). The requests were sent by a couple different people, so it's not just one person. Anyway, it's no big deal, I'm sure I've done it my self. I just wanted to make you all aware of the problem so you can watch out for it. Thanks a lot for all your help!!! 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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RE: cd/dvd request & question.
by Aaron Cannon 15 May '05

15 May '05

There is about 20MB or so of extra space on the best of CD. It's not a lot, but it's something. Thanks for your help and sorry it took so long to get back to you. Sincerely Aaron Cannon At 10:13 AM 5/10/2005, Scott Clous wrote: >I've signed up for that list, I think between updating the existing >books for the updating the CD, that will get me up to speed. Is there >room for more on the CD? > >After I understand how to update that one, we can look at the DVD. > >Thx. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Aaron Cannon [mailto:cannona@fireantproductions.com] >Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:07 PM >To: Scott Clous >Cc: cd(a)pglaf.org; John Hagerson >Subject: RE: cd/dvd request & question. > >Thanks for your interest in doing this. As for determining what to >include... well, that's the big question and the major difficulty in >making the compilation. You might consider asking on Distributed >Proofreaders and gutvol-d for people's opinion as to what are some >titles they think should be included. That's how the CD was built. > >You can find information on how to join the gutvol-d mailing list at >http://www.gutenberg.org/ > >Good luck and let me know if I can be of assistance. > >Sincerely >Aaron Cannon > > >At 08:35 AM 5/4/2005, you wrote: > >sure. > > > >I have a bit of time, and a bit enough drive to develop the ISO, etc. > > > >I was wondering how one decides what is the most deserving, but for me, > > >limiting to English is a good idea, and yes, then making sure they are > >the most recent versions is ideal. > > > > > > > > > >---------- > >From: John Hagerson [mailto:j.hagerson@comcast.net] > >Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:43 PM > >To: Scott Clous; cd(a)pglaf.org > >Subject: RE: cd/dvd request & question. > > > >Scott, > > > > > > > >That would be great! One thing to note is that we have revised the web > >copies of a number of the items that we have on the August 2003 CD and > >the December 2003 DVD. Ideally, we would include the "latest and >greatest" > >versions of each of our files. Obviously, there would need to be a > >cut-off somewhere or it would never get done (and which is part of the > >reason why it has yet to be done). > > > > > > > >I tried to use the catalog data in XML and use that to generate HTML > >for navigation for a subset of our books. I was able to automate part > >and I had to hand tweak part, mainly because my tools did not > >understand the byte order mark at the beginning of the XML file and > >ignored the necessary 8-bit back to 16-bit translation. If you would > >like to see any of my efforts, please let me know. > > > > > > > >Have a great day! > > > >John Hagerson > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Scott Clous [mailto:Scott.Clous@ccci.org] > >Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 2:41 PM > >To: cd(a)pglaf.org > >Subject: cd/dvd request & question. > > > > > > > >Question--The last Best of DVD and CD were made in August 2003, could I > > >update one for 2005, with newly added material (Sherlock Holmes stuff, > >etc.) and submit it back to you all? > > > >-- >E-mail: cannona(a)fireantproductions.com >Skype: cannona >MSN Messenger: cannona(a)hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail >address.) -- 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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FW: CDs/DVDs
by John Hagerson 05 May '05

05 May '05

It occurs to me this morning that I should have copied this list last night. -----Original Message----- From: John Hagerson [mailto:j.hagerson@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:24 PM To: Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com; cd(a)pglaf.org Subject: RE: CDs/DVDs I have the DVDs available. Does anyone else have a stash of CDs burned? I have blanks but I would need some time to burn them. What is the deadline? Anne: Please tell me privately where to send them. Would like them packaged for individual distribution? John -----Original Message----- From: Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com [mailto:Gutenberg9443@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:39 PM To: cd(a)pglaf.org Subject: CDs/DVDs Aaron, I'm in dire need of at least 50, preferably a hundred, CDs and DVDs. These are to be used in a fundraising effort. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Fwd: Re: Notification of Payment Received
by Aaron Cannon 18 Apr '05

18 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 12 Apr '05

12 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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Fwd: 4.2GB or 2,36GB or even 2.25GB - what's tighter=)
by Aaron Cannon 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Thought that this could potentially prove useful to someone someday. Person obviously seems to have done a lot of work. >Delivered-To: cd(a)pglaf.org >X-Originating-IP: [213.7.90.60] >X-Originating-Email: [maxbrain(a)hotmail.com] >X-Sender: maxbrain(a)hotmail.com >From: "Anthony Snatcher" <maxbrain(a)hotmail.com> >To: cd(a)pglaf.org, webmaster(a)gutenberg.org >Subject: 4.2GB or 2,36GB or even 2.25GB - what's tighter=) >Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:10:06 +0000 >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Mar 2005 09:10:06.0416 (UTC) >FILETIME=[1AF3A500:01C52F88] > >Hi Project Gutenberg Activist, > >I am a student in www.townshend.cz and downloaded your 10K >Gutenberg-4.2GB-DVD.iso >(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/8/0/10802/10802-rar/) and wanted to > >thank you very much for this wonderful organized job! > >All the old books that might have been lost are digitized and free for >everyone! (I am still waiting for Aldous Huxley's - "brave new world" >though ;-)) >Currently I try to make my own ebook-library. >got 2 DVDs full of ebooks!!!! WAHOOO! ;-) > >I hand them around as much as I can to distribute the wealth of knowledge. > >The Human Genome Project was included in the .iso although the homepage >said it was not. (it's an extry 400MB of text not really interesting TCGAAGTCA- > >Sequences) > >Anyways... managed to re-pack the textfiles (without HGP) from 7.28GB to >2,36 GB (32%). (with 1% CRC) (Still 4CDs! ;-() >Packed every folder in one .rar (so you have ETEXT00.rar ETEXT01.rar...) > >Even thighter was packing the whole thing into 4x 700MB.rar and 1x200MB >file 2.25GB (30%). (without CRC but including human genome project!) > >Thought that is interesting for you. (webspace, download-traffic and all) > >Know why? Packing a iso does not compress well, nor does packing .zip >files with .rar. > >What I did is the following: > >PROJECT GUTENBERG EXTREME TIGHT PACKING by Crypt0 21.03.2005 20:11 >(complains 2 maxbrain(a)hotmail.com) > >this is ibiblio 10KDVD without HumanGenomeProject > >i tried many different packers, rar did best so I packed everything with >WinRar 3.41 > >Downloaded 4.2GB ziped & rared -> unpacked 7,28 GB (7.824.153.728 Bytes) >-> 2.25GB rared (highest) >10KDVD without HumanGenomeProject >7,28 GB (7.823.773.824 Bytes) 100% >2,36 GB (2.534.577.635 Bytes) 32% >(including +1% (74MB) File Recovery (CRC)) > >PACKING TEST >211 MB (221.449.361 Bytes) 100% >UHAC 41,9 MB (43.970.903 Bytes) 21% >RAR 41,9 MB (43.970.975 Bytes) 21% >ganze 72Bytes unterschied! WAHOO! Winrar rockx ;-) > >ZIP 79,8 MB (83.778.555 Bytes) 38% >uahh... >ACE 57,7 MB (60.594.144 Bytes) 27% >bad..too > >RAR with bigdic better > >UHARC COMMAND Used : >"E:\PROJECT_Gutenberg\uharc.exe" a -r+ -ed- -pr -mx -mm+ -md+ -md32768 >-b32768 Gutenberg "E:\PROJECT_Gutenberg\pgdvd\*.*" > > >RAVE-ON! uz uz uz uz .... > >Crypt0 (maxbrain(a)hotmail.com) > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- 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 to the list
by John Hagerson 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Has anyone estimated the weight and volume of the printed works contained on a copy of the Project Gutenberg CD or DVD? I have a request from a gentleman who is going to Africa to play "Johnny CD-seed" and would like the statistic for his presentation. Thank you for your assistance.

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broken database
by Aaron Cannon 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Well, the move didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped, but all should be working again. Thanks for your patients. 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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