>I'd keep this sort of stuff in the regular downloads area, just have it marked as "unfinished", "abandoned", "lacks GUI", "not user friendly", "almost works", "needs inheritance (will someone finish this, I'm not using it)", "no I'm not maintaining this anymore". I know that having yet another area to search would simply make search time longer - when stuck with a problem, I usually search the FAQ, then the downloads, then the messages, then Wiki... who'd remember the dump?
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>What Michel could do, is to give the author an option to have his email address omitted from the file, so that no unwanted messages would start pouring in, and maybe another (he'll shoot me now for this) to pass the ownership of the file to another member, or even a group. Look at the move of Frx2wrd from single author into a collective effort - in a similar pattern, the dumped stuff may grow into big time stuff.

That is an excellent suggestion. I would like to have others feedback on it as to know if adding that identification to each Downloads entry would really be used when someone submit a new entry. Also, we would need to define the list of available choices and what name will we give to that new field.