Hi Doug,

>The messages themselves are, if I correctly recall, copyrighted by CompuServe so I don't think I can hand them out without regard to satisfying them in some manner, unless they (CompuServe) gave me a waiver or something.

I don't think that they are copyrighted by CompuServe. A CompuServe forum is always owned by a business partner, CompuServe only provides the infrastructure. For example, the current VFP forum (MSDevApps) is owned by WUGNET. BTW, we do have an archive available on CompuServe that dates back to the end of 1997 (and files going back to 1989). When we published it, the only restriction was that we only could make it available to members, not to guests. However, this restriction was lifted when our forum became available for free to everyone.

In any case, I'll try to find out who is responsible for giving the permission to publish your archive. It might take a while, though. I don't think posting the archive on CompuServe itself would be a problem, but there might be an issue making it available somewhere else.

Christof