On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:59:48AM +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote:

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:31:33 -0800, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:

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I am blocked and use BTConnect, BT is one of the largest ISPs in the UK

You don't seem to be blocked. Your message arrived. Do you have bounced messages? If so, please send them and I'll try to diagnose. -- gbn

From the catalog point of view, this has been settled, but it does bring up a point...

I've seen in wikipedia and a few other places URLs constructed like the two below, using an "author number". After amalgamating the two author records below, one of them will no longer link to William Joseph Long. So this is just a warning that URLs formed like this are not necessarily permanant. Andrew On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 bkeir@pgdp.net wrote:

I had repeated bounces of the following message, as described. This was sent to catalog twice and help once...

Hi

Sorry, I know this isn't the correct address, but this mail has bounced twice now from catalog AT pglaf.org

My original message was:

Hi

Perhaps

Long, William Joseph (1866 - 1952)

http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=744

and

Long, William J. (1866 - 1952)

http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=3505

are the same person?

Cheers!

Bill

Here's the second bounce report:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: FW: Duplicate author? Sent: 27/09/2004 12:51 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'catalog@pglaf.org' on 29/09/2004 12:51 PM The message was undeliverable because the recipient specified in the recipient postal address was not known at this address The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=AU;a= ;p=Matrikon;l=EXCHANGE-NCS-040927025037Z-16573

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Joel A. Erickson wrote:

I'm assuming numbers are used because it's easier on the programming side. But wouldn't it be easier for the users if it was the name instead. It probably has its downsides, but if author lookup was based on a name, then when the name was modified, the system could just look for the closest match(es). Or, I suppose, the author number could be forwarded, 3505 -> 744.

The canonical url for linking to an author is http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Mark_Twain This is described in http://www.gutenberg.org/howto-link

On a side note, the cookies for personalizing the PG skin seem to teminate rather quickly. Usually they last less than a day, it seems. Has anyone else noticed this? Perhaps I should ask Marcello.

They should terminate a year from issue. Maybe your browser limits the duration to one session? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org