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This is probabaly the last Newsletter that is going to the OLD server; at gutnberg@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu
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Well, my link to uiarchive is finally back up, so the November Etexts should be on all our major sites, as below, by the time you see this. I am not sure when the international sites do their mirroring but the US sites should all be ready to go.

My apologies, many of our links, drive, and computers have been down, all week long.

My apologies, also, for the fact that the CBC told me my interview would be on the air on Thanksgiving [Canadien OR American]. . .but they JUST called and told me it would be on the CBC and PRI tonite at 7:00 PM. . .we get PRI on PBS. . .Tuesday. . .December 3, 1996.

[Canadian Broadcasting Company/Corporation]
[Public Radio International]
[Public Broadcasting Service/System]

We shall see/hear.

Wired also called today, they now say we are in the February Wired which should go on the stands in early January. Around page 90.

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