Subject: electric library

From: capp / usa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:19:36 -0400

I would be interested in getting some feedback on the Electric Library 
(http://www.elibrary.com). This site has got to be one of the
most "content-rich" on the Web. There are over 1000 continuously
updated publications, including magazines,
newspapers, reference works, academic journals,
gov. publications, art, literature... 
I'm an intern for them, looking for some feedback.
Thanks very much!
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chris regan
[email-masked]

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From: Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Mar 1996 16:16:12 GMT

>I'm an intern for them, looking for some feedback.

Unless you offer the Uncle Al collection of 529 essays/1100 pages/400,000 
words, your electronic compendium is incomplete!  The most powerful, 
creative, dangerous, and misaligned mentality on planet Earth has 
extended its hungry and unforgiving tendrils.  We're talking bad 
craziness, eldritch creativity, and a funnybone wielded like a 
sledgehammer.  (Have you heard about the naughty things the elderly do 
with blood pressure cuffs?  Sphygmosexuality!)

Send $(US)18, your snail mail and e-mail address, and whether you need a 
PC or Mac disk set (DS/HD 3.5") to

     Uncle Al Schwartz
     P.O. Box 005
     49 FAbriano
     Irvine, CA  92720-2525

The disk set includes an exhaustive concordance.  The PC disk set has the 
powerful display utility FETCH; Mac doesn't need it.

-- 
Alan "Uncle Al" Schwartz
[email-masked]  ("zero" before "@")
http://vvv.com/adsint/freehand/uncleal/
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"  The Net!

(Uncle Al has been Officially convinced to "voluntarily" shut down his 
homepage.   You can own his complete 529 essay collection.  Surf by 
before it dies!)

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From: Greg Trayling <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 17:43:44 GMT

capp / usa <[email-masked]> wrote:
> ...

I can get 1000 times that much material at any library, and they don't
charge $9.95 a month to browse. Even on the web, I can do a search for 
any piece of information I need. The whole point of the web is it doesn't
have to all be at the same site. If everyone just contributes a little bit
about what they know, everything will be spiffy. People swarming in 
trying to make a bundle by selling information might be disappointed, I hope.
One thumb down.
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From: Jerry Bryson <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Mar 1996 08:38:49 GMT

Greg Trayling <[email-masked]> wrote:

>any piece of information I need. 
And it isn't here. Maybe someday. Don't cut up your library card

>The whole point of the web is it doesn't
>about what they know, everything will be spiffy. 

At the moment, if I have a book with the name of somebody I know, I can be pretty sure he produced it. OTOH, I have no such assurance about stuff I find on the Web.  Basically, about all you can do to help somebody in cyberspace is to tell them where to look.