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- From: anderson@cass.ma02.bull.com (Don Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Project Gutenberg
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.174247.6482@cass.ma02.bull.com>
- Organization: Bull World Wide Information Systems Inc.
- References: <12JAN199321350828@zeus.tamu.edu> <727695948snz@chaz.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:42:47 GMT
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- Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk (Charles Ashley) writes:
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- >In article <12JAN199321350828@zeus.tamu.edu> jwl3885@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
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- >>Has any one heard of Project Gutenberg? If so, do you know their address?
- >>Know how to contact them?
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>John
- >>
- >>
-
- >As I know it, Project Gutenburg is a project to get wads of books in
- >electronic format on the Net by the end of the century.
-
- >You might try the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletter, and Academic
- >Discussion Lists, by Michael Stangelove (Internet: 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca)
- >& Diane Kovacs (librk329@ksuvxa.edu); published by the Association of
- >Research Libraries. The chapter of interest is entitled
- >"Post-Gutenburg Galexy" by Steve Harnad. You might try to e-mail Strangelove
- >and/or Kovacs for an electronic version of the text (rather than buying the
- >whole book), or Steven Harnad himself (harnad@clarity.princeton.edu). I'm
- >sure one of these people will be able to point you in the right direction,
- >there are all prolific electronic publishers.
-
- >Good luck, hope this is been of help.
-
- >Charles.
-
-
- >PS: Would you mind sharing with me any findings and/or conclusions you can
- >make about Project Gutenburg? You can e-mail me direct at the address below.
- >Thanks.
-
- >--
- >*****************************************************************************
- >* - Charles Ashley - *
- >* Internet: ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk Learned Information Ltd. *
- >* CompuServe: 71333,624 tel: +44 (0)71-278-3414 *
- >*****************************************************************************
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- The Nutshell book The Whole INTERNET by Ed Krol tell you how to ftp Project
- Gutenberg "documents" (Moby Dick, Paridise Lost, etc, etc) try the following
- anonymous ftp: ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu Change directory to etext. There
- should be a README there. (This is at U. of Ill., Urbana-Champagne). Also
- ftp quake.think.com cd pub/etext.
-
- Hope this helps.
- Don
-
- Don Anderson anderson@cass.ma02.bull.com
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