FW: Wikibooks Usage Permission

I got this email today, don't know if it's legitimate or what. I also dont 
know why they singled out me, or thanked me for Wikibooks. Anyway, what do 
people make of this?

--Andrew Whitworth


>From: Worldlibrary <[email protected]>
>To: Whiteknight <[email protected]>
>Subject: Wikibooks Usage Permission
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:43 GMT
>
>
>
>Dear Whiteknight,
>
>We would like to thank you for creating such a wonderful e-textbook and 
>e-document collection.  The Wikibooks project is a true contribution to the 
>academic and research community by preserving and assisting access to 
>textbooks and references online.  We would like to include a link to your 
>collection at www.wikibooks.org and include several of the GNU Free 
>Documentation License Wikibooks in the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center 
>Collection, World eBook Fair, and the World Public Library Consortia. 
>Please accept our sincere wish to recognize your wonderful works by 
>promoting public awareness and readership of the Wikibooks project.
>
>Thank you very much for reviewing our request for use permission of the 
>Wikibooks Collection for inclusion in Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, 
>World eBook Fair, and the World Public Library Consortia for the exclusive 
>purpose of private study, research, criticism or review. The World Public 
>Library and Project Gutenberg Consortia Center are Non-profit organizations 
>dedicated to promote online literacy.
>
>A list of our contributors may be viewed at the following URLs:
>http://gutenberg.cc/Catalogs.htm, http://worldebookfair.com, and 
>http://worldlibrary.net/Catalogs.htm
>
>1,982 PDF files, Census Bureau eDocument Collection
>2,019 PDF files, FOIA's: Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
>2,600 files, CIA Declassified Documents Collection and World Fact Book
>1,200 PDF files, Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia
>700 PDF files, United Nations Document Collection
>584 FWDP PDF files, Collection Fourth World Document Project
>11,820 PDF files, Environmental Awareness Library Collection (EPA 
>Collection)
>577 PDF files, NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
>Collection
>635 PDF files, NOAA: National Oceanographic Data Center Collection
>11,420 PDF files, Medical Publications Collection: Department of Health and 
>Human Services and Center for Disease Control and Prevention
>308 PDF files, The Federal Aviation Administration
>6,620 PDF files, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office 
>Collection
>7,192 PDF files, U.S. Government Printing Office Collection
>2,720 PDF files, White House ePublication Collection
>12,000 PDF files, Project Gutenberg Collection
>788 files, eBooks@adelaide Collection
>450 files Project Gutenberg Australia
>15,000 PDF files, Black Mask Collection
>900 PDF files, Sacred-Text Collection (Religious Literature)
>647 PDF files, Wiretap and Alex (English Literature)
>28 PDF files, The Victorian Prose Archive
>200 PDF files, Tony Kline Collection
>1,700 PDF files, Renascence Editions (Renascence Literature)
>277 PDF files, Ebooks Libres & Gratuits Collection (French Literature)
>199 PDF files, Classic Chinese Literature Collection
>150,000 files ACIP - Asian Classic Input Project
>760 PDF files, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Collection (Irish 
>Literature
>18,000 files ibiblio - World Literature Collection
>34,000 PDF files, Logo Group - Multi Language eBook and eDocument 
>Collection
>27,000 Music Files, Hawaiian Virtual Library - Hawaiian eMusic Collection
>3,000 files Videos Internet Archive
>900 PDF files, Peitho's Web
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>109 PDF files, DjVu Edition eBooks
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>685 Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
>175 PDF files, The Coradella Bookshelf Collection
>58 PDF files, Baen Free Library
>and more . . .
>
>
>**(## Wikibooks Collection)**
>
>
>Please let us know if there is any other way we can be of assistance to 
>Wikibooks project.
>
>Best wishes and aloha,
>
>
>John
>
>
>
>*****************************************
>
>John S. Guagliardo
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>      Director, Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, www.Gutenberg.cc
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