Hello ep-fdn.

06 Dec 07 05:47, you wrote to all:


Well firstly by excluding pdf, you are hampering your efforts togain content, 
as most people release stuf in PDF format, due to their perception, that this 
is the "defacto" format for electronic publishing, i.e. you are shooting 
yourself in the foot so to say ... , or both feet ...

Secondly Linux has a very good version of Acrobat Reader which is free on all 
platforms, currently using Ubuntu ....

Am going to try and get copies of the files for this area mentioned below, but 
I have the Gutenburg project on DVD, but the files are named crypticly, and 
designed to be acsessed via a web-site, so a serious search and rename 
operation would be required.

I have a number of novels of which there are "free" versions, but they are 
mixed in with pay versions, I index and store according to subject/authour and 
not the lisence used for distribution, and I am not going to check 10 gig's 
worth of files for their suitability for distrabution, and most of these are 
in PDF format any how, which gives me less reason to bother ...

About the only thing that as I see it is distributable via you setup is 
Linux/FreeBSD documentation, and material which is now beginning to be 
released under one or other form of the creative commons lisence - severely 
limiting any content you might get ...

Just my comments ...

 ec> I thought I'd take this opportunity to formally introduce the
 ec> electronic publishing file distribution network to the fidonet
 ec> community.  THough an article about it authored by yours truly was
 ec> published in fidonews many may not have seen it.

 ec> so far the only traffic in this file echo has been that which I
 ec> generated myself.  Obviously, we're looking for contributions from the
 ec> sysops  and users out there in fidoland.  You can see epsubmit.zip
 ec> from the administrative area, ep-adm for complete guidelines on file
 ec> submissions.

 ec> AS you peruse the submission guidelines you'll note that I will not
 ec> release pdf files into any of the ep-fdn echoes.  there is no way that
 ec> I can guarantee the legality of hatching such files, therefore I won't
 ec> take pdf files for distribution under any circumstances.  Another
 ec> willing soul out there might wish to start an fdn or two for materials
 ec> in pdf format.  However, ep-fdn cannot accept pdf files for
 ec> distribution.  I have no way of reading them even were I to acquire
 ec> acrobat reader for linux due to some technical barriers related to
 ec> blindness and inherent in the pdf format itself.

 ec> AS we must not violate international copyright rules and the various
 ec> laws governing intellectual property throughout the world we ask that
 ec> you read and comply with the submission guidelines contained in
 ec> epsubmit.zip.  IF there is a problem complying with them but you feel
 ec> that a book or periodical would be of interest to the fido community,
 ec> and it can be legally distributed in this manner contact me and we'll
 ec> see what can be worked out.

 ec> Regards,
 ec>            Richard
 ec> --- timEd 1.10.y2k+


Russell

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