> If egroups persist in placing their advertising at the top of every

message I

> for one shall be unsubscribing. It is bad enough that their stupid adverts

are

> at the bottom of every message.

I feel no less irritated by the ads than you do but I certainly am grateful
for the good resource these lists have been and for all that it has enabled
us to accomplish.

It is possible to pay a reasonable fee per annum to have all ads suppressed
from the messages and I am happy to do this. Perhaps a few of you could
express your gratitude for the IBDI and our efforts by donating the funds to
make this possible. If not, that's ok, I'll probably go ahead and pay to
have them removed anyway, my well hasn't run quite that dry as yet.

Since CPS (my company, maker of IBObjects) has been the only financial
contributor to the IBDI endeavor I have gone a bit "cheap" in order to do
the best I could with the scant resources I had available at the time.

Please submit donations to:
IBDI - Jason Wharton
619 N. Macdonald St.
Mesa AZ 85201
USA

Kind regards,
Jason Wharton
InterBase Developer Initiative
http://www.interbase2000.org

CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com