I don't think another email forum for the z is needed. We have IBM-MAIN, IBMTCP-L, MVS-OE, CICS-L, ASSEMBLER-LIST, Linux-390 and likely even more. IANAL, but I wonder what the copyright status is of the messages which are sent on a public email forum. I just don't see how anybody could assert a copyright claim on them (thinking about Lindy's response about one person who considers his knowledge to be his "property"). So maintaining an independent archive is likely legal (if not, Google is in trouble). I also wonder how much "editing" that one could get away with. What I was thinking of was perhaps a "raw archive" (perhaps indexed or threaded) and, from that, make an FAQ "wiki" like site which took the information, organized it, but include hyperlinks back to the "raw archive" message(s) from which the information was "cribbed". Might even have links to vendor documentation, if such is available. IBM very nicely has a good Web documentation site that I often reference in a reply so that other's can evaluate things for themselves. All that I've been able to find for CA are PDF documents, and you need to log into their support site to get access to them. So I doubt it would be legal to "webify" them so that you could give a hyperlink to a web page containing their information. Other vendors seem to be like CA. They don't seem to want their documentation to be easily accessed via the Web in an "unfettered" manner. Oh, wait, Dovetail Technologies "man" pages for their zero-cost software is easily gotten to via "unfettered access" and hyperlinks.
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