On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dave Page wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I personnally would prefer to remove them, however
> unless we get suitable corporate sponsorship the servers still have to
> be paid for somehow. Purely speculation, but I would guess that the ads
> are not recouping all of the cash it costs hub.org to host the sites as
> it is.
Not even close ... in fact, most of the banners there are in recognition
of those companies who themselves have provided invaluable resources for
the project by providing mirror sites, to reduce the overall traffic hits
on the central server ...