Etext of Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Internet.
*******This file should be named hhgi10.txt or hhgi10.zip*******
Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER,
xxxxx10a.txt.
Project Gutenberg is working on creating a simple, childlike (if you
will) network guide, "A Child's Garden of the Internet." If you have
any suggestions for inclusions, and/or could take a few minutes to write
a "Ten Minute Tuturial" on any subject you feel worthwhile. These
should be directed at the absolute novices of the networks, and should
presume little or no previous knowledge (we are even including how to
control-c in each tutorial, as the tutorials are each supposed to be a
stand alone event taking the nominal "Ten Minutes" to expose the
novices to a particular part of the networks, or to a particular
resource. . .even if that is a resource directed at other resources, such as
Gopher, Prospero and others. This could be an easy way to get your
name in print in both etext and paper publishing, as we had hardly
announced A Child's Garden before we were approached for paper
publishing.
Information about Project Gutenberg
(one page)
We produce about one million dollars for each hour we work. One
hundred hours is a conservative estimate for how long it we take to get
any etext selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright searched and
analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc. This projected audience is
one hundred million readers. If our value per text is nominally
estimated at one dollar, then we produce a million dollars per hour;
next year we will have to do four text files per month, thus upping our
productivity to two million/hr. The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to
Give Away One Trillion Etext Files by the December 31, 2001. [10,000
x 100,000,000=Trillion] This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred
million readers.
Send to:
David Turner, Project Gutenberg Illinois Benedictine College 5700
College Road Lisle, IL 60532-0900
All communication to Project Gutenberg should be carried out via
Illinois Benedictine College unless via email. This is for help in
keeping me from being swept under by paper mail as follows:
1. Too many people say they are including SASLE's and aren't.
2. Paper communication just takes too long when compared to the
thousands of lines of email I receive every day. Even then, I can't
communicate with people who take too long to respond as I just can't
keep their trains of thought alive for those extended periods of time.
Even quick responses should reply with the text of the messages they
are answering (reply text option in RiceMail). This is more difficult
with paper.
3. People request disks without specifying which kind of disks, it can
be very difficult to read an Apple disk on an IBM. I have also received
too many disks that cannot be formatted.
My apologies.
We would strongly prefer to send you this information by email
(Internet, Bitnet, Compuserve, ATTMAIL or MCImail). Email requests
to:
Internet:
[email protected] Bitnet: hart@uiucvmd or
[email protected] Compuserve: >internet:
[email protected]
Attmail: internet!vmd.cso.uiuc.edu!HART MCImail: ADDRESS
TYPE: MCI / EMS: INTERNET / MBX:
[email protected]
****** If you have an FTP program (or emulator), please:
FTP directly to the Project Gutenberg archives:
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
login: anonymous
password: your@login
cd etext/etext91
or cd etext92 [for new books] [now also cd
etext/etext92]
or cd etext/articles [get suggest gut for more
information]
dir [to see files]
get or mget [to get files. . .set bin for zip files]
GET INDEX and AAINDEX (or any file containing "index"
for a list of books
and
GET NEW GUT for general information
and
MGET GUT* for newsletters.
**
Information prepared by the Project
Gutenberg legal advisor
**
*START** SMALL PRINT! for ** Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
This etext was distributed by Professor Michael S. Hart through the
Project Gutenberg Association (the "Project"). As with other Project
Gutenberg-tm etexts, you can (and are encouraged!) to copy and
distribute it in the United States. We tell you how below.
*BEFORE!* YOU USE OR READ THIS ETEXT
Why is this "Small Print!" statement here? You know: lawyers. They
tell us you might sue us if there is something wrong with your copy of
this etext, even if you got it for free from someone other than us, and
even if what's wrong is not our fault. So, among other things, this
"Small Print!" statement disclaims most of our liability to you.
By using or reading any part of this PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm etext,
you indicate that you understand, agree to and accept this "Small
Print!" statement. If you do not, you may receive a refund of the money
(if