<biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator)> wrote >
> Contents:
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> 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!
>> 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!
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> BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now
> operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our
> Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your
> time to help us serve you.
Why are the Bionet newsgroups the only ones in the whole of Cyberspace who
spend their time begging for money?
Why, even, are the only ones on Usenet who seem to carry commercial
advertising?
These are serious departures from the valued traditions of the Net, and
should be explained.
-dlj.
