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Dec 21 18:39 UTC 2006

Before too many people get off on a tangent about MISSIONS, lets just look
at the Articles of Incorporation for both ARBORNET and CYBERSPACE
COMMUNICATIONS.



ARBORNET

To organize and operate a community-based computer conferecing system in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, involving as many local citizens as possible in computer
conferencing activities of an educational, informational, and data collection
and dissemination nature.
This organization is organized and operated exclusively for purposed described
in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

CYBERSPACE COMMUNICATIONS

The corporation is organized for such charitable and educational purposes as
may qualify it for exemption from the federal income tax under Section 501(c)3
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or the corresponding
provisions of any future United States internal revenue law.)
More specifically, such purposes include, but are not limited to, the
advancement of public education and scientific endeavor through interaction
with computers, and humans via computers, using computer conferencing. 
Further purposes include the exchange of scientific and technical information
about the various aspects of computer science, such as operating systems,
computer networks, and computer programming.

re #369
 Grexers - and M-Netters - are only really interested in one goal.  Keeping
 Grex (or M-Net) up and running.

 The charitable mission is a joke.

re #374
 M-Net was tied to the Arbornet charter, which had provisions for
 community forums and an educational mission.  No one at all was ever
 interested in those sorts of things, not since M-Net came along, anyway.

Neither of you remember when we had toolkits made and taught hardware class?
Or maybe you missed the M-Net/UNIX manual that was published?
To date, it seems both organizations have stuck to their purposes to provide
"computer conferencing" or "interaction with computers" and the educational
or scientific or data collection bits are sort of ancillary but they DO
exist.