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hi all this cyber-conver-sation about copyrights is interesting i still cannot fathom how copying something anything a joke, a news article, a medical study, a photocopy of a painting, and 'giving' that copy to a friend no commercial interest no profit motive can be illegal let alone controlled a sibling mentioned an instance where a teacher was not allowed to photocopy pages from a textbook for distribution to students i can understand the restriction in this case since the teacher was acting in a paid professional mode and the textbook publisher was 'being deprived' of further textbook sales i have to admit a certain prejudice in regard to the prices of the professional medical and scientific journals i believe that their price is related to their market tolerance level and not directly to their cost however, that discussion is now irrelevant in my eyes, since VP Al Gore announced PubMed's site at the National Library of Medicine site at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ PubMed is paid for by the us government which means by all you americans [thank you!] has given free access to 9,000,000 published medical abstracts as well as a large and growing number of full-blown articles from journals now directly available on the internet be all this as it may, i will write to NandoNet and PubMed and get the word directly from the horse's mouth i will keep you all posted by the way, NandoNet is my favourite daily news source at: http://www.nando.net/nt/health/index_noframes.html and while i'm at it my other regular daily stop in the morning is: Today's Poem at: http://www.poems.com/today.htm i have now added the WebRing for People With Parkinson's to my daily surf session: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=parkie;list check y'all later just another cyber-sibling janet THE BEST MED FOR PD IS EXPOSURE TO FLASH janet paterson 51/10 - sinemet/selegiline/prozac almonte/ontario/canada - [log in to unmask]