April 2006 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

Clarification please
by Tim Stowell 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

I'd like a simple explanation please of the way items are contributed to the Project. In other words does the project accept transcripts of text from a book / work? Or are the requirements that the text be broken down by page number, notated, with footnotes if any, at the bottom of the page? If it is the former I can contribute immediately. If it is the latter, I'll need some guidance. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell(a)chattanooga.net

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!@!Your subscription to ebook-community has been changed (fwd)
by Michael Hart 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Perhaps I spoke too soon. . .it would appear that once again odd things are happening to my sub. mh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 11 Apr 2006 15:21:26 -0000 From: Yahoo! Groups Notification <notify(a)yahoogroups.com> To: hart(a)pglaf.org Subject: Your subscription to ebook-community has been changed Hello, This is to inform you that your request to change your subscription to ebook-community to the "No Mail/Web Only" mode has been completed. Regards, Yahoo! Groups Customer Care Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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re: [gutvol-d] in his own words -- unbelievable
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

dale reese said: > so bowerbird got kicked off a listserve he helped create?! yep, i sure did. pretty ironic, eh? maybe i should have kept the moderator privileges... ;+) by the way, does anyone know who "dale reese" is? i'd like to find out. since he informed me what one of my passwords was on an account, i suspect that he might have hacked into my system somehow; i'd like to know who might do that type of thing, and it's not like i'm overly paranoid or anything, i was just wondering if anyone knows who he is. by the way, i wrote that up for a broadside, for a series of them created by rick lupert, a los angeles poet and poetry producer... as an amazing coincidence, rick is celebrating the _100th_ broadside in his series _tonight_... rick does some good work, so i encourage you to check it out. he'll also be offering a bunch of poetry chapbooks in electronic-form very soon, on his website, if you would be interested in that: > http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com he'll be offering e-chapbooks from _many_ poets, but i can unequivocally recommend rick's own .pdf, in advance, because he has a funny sense of humor, and he's an excellent graphic designer as well, plus he knows how to set up a .pdf _correctly_... so if you want to see how it should be done, check rick's .pdf, and get some dry wit as part of the deal... -bowerbird

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in his own words -- unbelievable
by Dale Reese 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

i chuckle everytime bowerbird chirps. he believes no one heeds his golden wisdom. after all, bowerbird knows everything. he is always right. we are the stupid ones. he alone knows what's best for us. he is above us all. he is god. in his own words, bowerbird admits his purpose in posting to listserves: http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/090704.pdf "even though he obviously can't get anything to work well himself, bowerbird nonetheless seems to have absolutely no difficulty in butting in and telling other people what _they_ should be doing. since he started doing performance poetry, he has been telling los angeles poetry producers that they should try to concentrate the community's resources rather than diluting its critical mass. absolutely no one ever listened to him. (or realize he was right.) for years he was a thorn in the national slam family, using their own listserve (which he had helped bring about and make a success) to tell them exactly what they were doing wrong. in explicit detail. with convincing argument after convincing argument. day after day. until they had no choice but to ban him from the listserve, thereby fully demonstrating the depth of their commitment to free speech. that wasn't the first listserve from which bowerbird has been banned. and it probably won't be the last either... some people just never learn. even though (as is clearly evidenced here), once he actually gets going, it is extremely difficult to shut him up, it nonetheless remains true that bowerbird is very uncomfortable talking about himself in the third person -- which is why he rarely writes a bio -- so he will stop doing that now, and he will go have a sandwich because he is kind of hungry right now..." so bowerbird got kicked off a listserve he helped create?! oh! the injustice of it all. if they only knew he was there to lift them from oblivion. -- Dale Reese dalereese(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web

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re: [gutvol-d] re: censorship
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

michael said: > I should add that not only does Jon Noring censor me > to a greater extent that I am aware of him censoring > any others, he also makes efforts to get me censored > on other lists by starting flame wars and then he is > the first to say that _I_ am the cause. he's just done the same thing to me over on teleread. oh well, as it was a waste of my time and energy to be over there balancing the rothman/noring spin machine -- because hype tends to be "self-correcting" anyway -- i figure he has done me one big favor... :+) -bowerbird p.s. my resolution for 2006 was to stop commenting on teleread anyway, and i succeeded for almost two months, but i slipped one day and have been commenting since. but the "moderation" thing -- by the way, it was _branko_ who david selected to be my "moderator", funny, eh? -- will mean that i stop posting there entirely, which means my attention will be refocused on more important things, things that _do_ matter...

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re: censorship
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

jon noring said: > Michael Hart is on moderation, > as most of the others on TeBC. unless something has changed recently, the headers clearly show michael's posts have had to be "approved" before posting. except for the occasional new subscriber, nobody else's headers show such "approval" was required before the message was posted. whether this enforced moderation constitutes "censorship" or not depends on how we choose to define the word. but my best guess is that michael feels that his voice is being silenced... and of course i've been _banned_outright_ from jon's listserve, for many years now. he will tell you that's because i was "rude" or some such nonsense. everyone knows it's because he wanted to silence me, because my comments gummed up his hype machine. -bowerbird

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Apologies
by Michael Hart 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

It would appeare that Jon Noring's fix of my subscription came through effective at just about the same time I was writing my comments about that. So. . .my apologies. . .and my thanks. . . . Michael

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'Lasker's Manual of Chess.'
by tom arnall 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

I am interested in creating a Gutenberg book of Emanuel Lasker's 'Lasker's Manual of Chess.' If anyone is interested in helping me scan the book, please let me know. Also, the copyright info in my copy of the book states that the book was originally published in 1932. Does this mean that the book is still protected by copyright law in the US? Tom Arnall north spit, ca

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re: [gutvol-d] re: censorship
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

frank said: > The very idea is shocking!! ;) got a good laugh out of that, did you frank? well, i'm glad... ;+) -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] branko
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

greg said: > Branko is a lovely fellow and active volunteer. > But no, he doesn't speak for PG or DP. nobody ever said he did. no volunteer does. but his actions now certainly reflect -- badly -- on both d.p. and p.g., since he has in the past touted his alignment rather obviously, having written entries about d.p. and p.g. at teleread and various other places around cyberspace. but hey, if you don't care, i don't care either... -bowerbird

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