DS>   In my view, making the BBS message data base available
 DS> for users in a variety of formats (Web page, NNTP, QWK
 DS> packets, etc.) is *NOT* gating.  I am not against such
 DS> actions, so long as the potential format differences are
 DS> handled in a reasonable manner.

agreed as well as handling the potential for abuse from posters... in this
day in age, one also needs to do what one can to prevent spammers from
harvesting any posted email addresses... that is easily done by obfuscating
the addresses when making them available via the display or storage
procedure... i like the display procedure so that the info is not
permanently lost as it would be in the storage procedure...

just some thoughts in very rough (aka light) terms...

)\/(ark