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Books Index update from #240 to #251. 

Project Gutenberg has been bringing you Free Electronic Texts since 1971 when there were only about 100 people on the Internet, we hope for more.

Project Gutenberg has reached number 250 in its goal to bring you 10,000 Etexts through the Electronic Public Library Association on the Internet and off. Many of the books we were planning on bringing you were voided from the Public Domain by the 1975 US Copyright Act, and we were told we would have to wait an additional 19 years for them at that time.

For instance, both Winnie-the-Pooh and Hemingway came out in the middle- 1920s, and should have entered the Public Domain no longer than 56 years later under their orginal copyrights. However, before that could happen in the early 1980s, things were changed after the fact to make copyright on these works last for an additional 19 years, for a 75 year total.

House Bill 989 and Senate Bill 483 are once again seeking to extend this effort to keep materials out of the Public Domain, this time for another 20 years in addition to the first 28 year extension, the second 19 year, and now another 20 years, for a total of 67 years of extensions on those original 28 year copyright terms.

Enough said, it should be obvious that if laws such as this continued to be passed every 20 years or so, that nothing will ever enter into Public Domain status again and the work of people such as the Internet Wiretap, the Online Book Initiative, and Project Gutenberg will soon be over, and no literature or information newer than 1919 will ever be free to send a whole world of people over the Internet.

Now that we finally have the capacity to create and distribute all these materials for Unlimited Distribution, it is obvious there are efforts to keep anyone from doing it. As I have said so many times before, "We are all going to have the ability to store the Library of Congress on drives that will be available during our lifetimes. . .but I am not sure that a society based on Limited Distribution will let us do it."

You may notice that the newest item on this list may help you to voice a personal opinion about this to Congress, and I urge you to do so whether your vote is pro or con.

I have just completed 24 years on the Internet, and 48 years on Earth; I would ask any of you who would be willing to give me a birthday present, on having completed 2/3 of my expected lifetime, to make some effort for the continuation of works such as Project Gutenberg in our future. This will do more to improve the human condition than anything else I can do.

Please try to find a site close to you for accessing Project Gutenberg Etexts. mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu is getting clogged!!

Here is a partial listing of some of the ftp sites and BBS's carrying the Project Gutenberg Etexts. As always, the final authority is mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, but we would thank you to try at lease a couple of these before trying us because this site is getting grossly overloaded sometimes, and even I can not get in all the time to put in the new Etexts.

New Listings:

http://www.technet.sg/singapore-server.html

http://www.np.ac.sg:9080

nptn.org cd /pub/e.text/gutenberg 192.190.49.8

The College Board BBS in Sunset, SC (803) 878-7340?

This list is far from complete, and undoubtedly inaccurate!! Any corrections, additions or deletions would be appreciated very much, and included in later listings. Locations of the servers would be nice, so people could increase efficiency a little bit for the Internet as whole. I have entered some-- but don't know them all.

Included first are US ftp sites, then world ftp sites. Next are BBSs for the US and the world.

If anyone would care to volunteer to maintain this list just let me know.

In the United States ftp to the following: deneva.sdd.trw.com = 129.193.173.1 LA Area, California etext.archive.umich.edu = 192.131.22.7 Michigan ftp.etext.org (192.131.22.8) [connects to etext.archive.umich.edu] cd /pub/Gutenberg wcarchive.cdrom.com:/pub/gutenberg [192.216.191.11] Bay Area, California ftp.wustl.edu = wuarchive.wustl.edu = 128.252.135.4, St. Louis, MO nptn.org = 192.190.49.8 oak.oakland.edu = 141.210.10.117 Michigan quake.think.com = 192.31.181.1 think.com = 131.239.2.1 ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9) /doc/literary/gutenberg/etext93 ftp sunsite.unc.edu cd pub/docs/books inforM.umd.edu Maryland calypso-2.oit.unc.edu (198.86.40.81) North Carolina cd /pub/docs/books halcyon.com (198.>137.231.1) /dec/.0/data

Canada: Many, but far from all, are available at Mindlink.bc.ca. Login as guest

Austria

ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:/pub/gutnberg

England and UK

unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/doc/literary/gutenberg/etext94

src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/media/literary/collections/project_gutenberg

France

ftp.cnam.fr:/pub2/Gutenberg ftp.cnam.fr = 163.173.128.6

ftp.loria.fr:/pub/textes/obi/Gutenberg

The Data Zone BBS phone: +33-1-39706456 Fidonet 2:320/218

Germany alice.fmi.uni-passau.de (132.231.1.180) cd /pub

wrzx02.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de:/pub/text/gutenberg

Japan ftp news3.yasuda-u.jp.ac ?? cd users/pub/gutenberg/etext91, 92, 93, 94

In Singapore [BBS is mostly in Chinese] www.technet.sg

Sweden ftp.sunet.se (130.238.127.3) cd /pub/etext

Taiwan ftp.edu.tw = nctuccca.edu.tw = 140.111.1.10 & 192.83.166.10

BBS's and Gophers

Connecticut Sea of Noise +1 203 886 1441 1200-28800 bps (v.FC)

Sweden Tanken FAMS BBS is located in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. Phone +46-8-6566827. The BBS is open 24h/d to everyone at no fee whatsoever, e-mail, mailftp, etc. The modem used is an ZyXEL U1496E; v32b, v42b, ZyXEL's own 16.8kbps standard.

LINCOLN'S CABIN BBS - 415/752-4490 (8-N-1) San Francisco, CA Login: project gutenberg Password: guest

The Black Forest BBS (919)787-6198 Quality Weird People (919)571-7252.

Gutenberg is found in the gopher server "UM-GOPHERBLUE" maintained by the University of Michigan. I get to by dialing 313-998-1303 ( a 9600 baud server line) then specifying UM-GOPHERBLUE in response to the "which host" prompt. This is a free service requiring no id or fee beyond the price of the phone call. Other phone lines are listed in menus available under "help" to "which host?" prompt.

New World BBS 1-701-282-4308 14.4kps North Dakota Will someone please verify this, the areacode and location?

Bitter Butter Better BBS Oregon 1-503-620-0307 Fidonet 1:105/290 1200-14,400bps. Almost all titles, archived with ARJ. Free access.

Thank you,

Michael Hart