> >   ? someone trying to make a quick buck here? what bothers me is how
> >   devnation may obtain its information (which users must pay for) -
> >   do they take it from developer forums like this??
> 
> *cough* "free developer forums"

  they were :) hopefully they still will be :)

> >   if so, what right do they have to take our comments and archive them
> >   without our permission - let alone sell rights to access them. its
> >   kinda making me think twice about helping anyone on this list anymore.
> 
> I think the comments become public, unless disclaimered otherwise,
> though they cannot reproduce them without your express permission, since you
> officially own the rights to your own works, including email.

  i dont know if you can view the comments without registering :) thats
  the problem :P

> >   the issue of ask a question and it'll be answered in 72 hours is an
> >   interesting one.. what happens if they dont answer? :) i am think of
> >   a few questions :)
> 
> I wonder even more if the questions you ask will somehow show up here
> on the forums, under some various random usernames. Perhaps they seed the
> forums with questions, then get the responses and format them back to their
> paying userbase?

  wouldn't surprise me :)

> Personally, I find that 'rgrep -C' through my massena.com newsspool
> and through my palm-dev-forum mail folders tend to find the answers pretty
> quickly, plus knowing how to properly format a search engine query.

  hmm.. nearly 30 months of palm-dev-forum archived in my ~/mail folder
  kinda supports this theory :) heh.. long live grep :P

// az
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