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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: visitors for NanoAging
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:40:17 +0100

It is interesting to note that this has happened before:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000818191043/www.atomasoft.com/

if you click on investor relations, job opportunities, board etc., it seems
as though there is a legitimate company here. But clearly something went
wrong because it is only on the archive.

And there is another
http://web.archive.org/web/20010922134105/www.bioreceptor.com/
But clearly something went wrong because it is only on the archive.

How many more, I wonder.

I certainly think credit is due ... to the technical expertise of the people
that designed the web builder programs used to create these sites. It seems
that any idiot can produce a site that looks as though it is from some well
funded organisation. One of the reasons why this is possible is because
legitimate organisations use this type of software and don't seem to worry
that people on dial up can hardly use their sites because they are so slow
to download. Such ponderous software is known as "bloatware".

But it is worrying that this site is asking for gifts of money which should
really be going to Alcor and CI and other legitimate cryonics organisations.
It is bad enough that the money could be deflected, it is worse when one
considers what the ramifications will be if there is a public investigation.
I also note that there are job opportunities offered - again a monetary
transaction with complications if it goes wrong (such as the salary, income
tax, insurance, pension contribution etc., not being paid after work is
done).

according to
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/BIOSCI/ARCHIVE/bioforum/bioforum.200107
Mr Despres wrote in 2001

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am searching a co helper or a co owner for BioReceptor.com, I created
> several websites already and Arya (He is doing his M.S. in biochemistry
> presently) and me (I am doing my S.B. in sciences) are providing news to
our
> community. I'd like to know if you are interested to help us we would need
> someone able to write stories, short ones on biotechnology/biology.
> Let me know if you can help,
>
> Best,
>
> --Jon
>
> http://www.bioreceptor.com

**several** sites? in 2001?

Mr Despres clearly has lots of experience in producing sites that get
visitors and look nice and official.

If he is genuine in his interest in cryonics, I suggest that at least the
cryonics one (but preferably all of them) is modified so that any requests
for gifts are directed straight to a legitimate cryonics organisation, and
job opportunities etc are purely links to organisations that can provide
genuine employment, ie with salaries and which fulfil all the legal
requirements of employment.

If cryonics works and people can live for thousands of years, there is far
greater opportunity for the rest of the world to catch up with any
malfeasances.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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