Well I think that's useful and hopefully it works out. If you ask yourself why no one has done that before the answer is propriety, intellectual property, moral rights since none of that stuff is under an open source license. Particularly when you realize there are two versions of the M100SIG zip file... one with Wilson Van Alst's contributions and posts and one without.
Sometimes people get angry about their posts and files they contributed on compuserve being shared freely. Not many but WvA was the existence proof. Now this goes a big step further in allowing anyone to modify the archive... in a way, change history. I guess the counter argument is the original is still there in the change history. And who's allowed to change which files? Copyright, moral rights are with the creators. But we don't know who is engaged, who cares, who is dead. As with all orphaned works. Not saying you shouldn't do it. Just things to think about. -- John.
