It may not be relevant, but to see a bit of history, the old PG volunteer web board is still in place: http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/index.html Here are two particular messages that mention DP: http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/messages/1063.html http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/messages/1557.html Andrew On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, George Davis wrote:
Checking the "Completed Gold E-texts" page, in ascending order by submission date (http://www.pgdp.net/c/list_etexts.php?x=g&sort=4), it shows:
1) "Mohammed Ali and His House", L. Muhlbach () Uploaded: Tuesday, March 13th, 2001
The link for that etext is to #3320.
The above was relied upon in arriving at the March 13th date. Which has run in the newsletter since June 16, 2004, with no notice of correction.
Instead, I believe the first DP book to be posted by PG was #3059 (Homer's "The Iliad", trans. Andrew Lang) which was posted by December 6, 2000[c].
Are in you for a surprise: DP didn't do that one. From the etext:
"This etext was prepared by Sandra Stewart <unfettered@aol.com> and Jim Tinsley <jtinsley@pobox.com>"
#3320 has a credit to C.F. and D.P.
[a] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/PGMonthly_2001_02_07.txt [b] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/Other_2000_10_18_Project_Gutenbe... [c] http://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/archive/PGMonthly_2000_12_06.txt
-Michael Dyck
Hopefully, someone from D.P. will step up and provide more meaningful activity updates for inclusion in the newsletter. People outside of DP would be interested in seeing what's going on over there, and why not include such in the weekly PG newsletter?