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
Ah, so it does. Mind you, it also says that books 2 through 160 were uploaded on January 1st, 2002, which is pretty implausible. The bottom line is, don't trust the dates on that page. (A little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the projects table makes them cheats.)
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.
Until now.
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>"
Sorry, no surprise -- I read that attribution before I posted my earlier message. The lack of mention of DP didn't convince me that the text hadn't gone through DP. We'll see what Jim says.
Hopefully, someone from D.P. will step up and provide more meaningful activity updates for inclusion in the newsletter.
Perhaps someone will. I'm not sure I share your hope though.
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?
If people want to know what's going on, they're welcome to visit the DP website <http://www.pgdp.net> and see for themselves. (They may need to register -- it depends what they want to see.) -Michael Dyck