Mike - you write that an FTP archive is a library open to the public. While it looks like one to me, the important thing is convincing a grand jury or jury that it's true, or heading off a prosecutor who'll try to paint ftp archives as 'subversive hacker BBSs' or nonsense like that. (Which won't stop them from treating them as libraries if it's useful for other things they're doing.) Until there are some court cases setting precedent one way or the other, they can try to construe it narrowly when they want narrow and broadly when they want broad. It would seem that some cheap insurance in cases like this is to make sure that most of the interesting material finds its way into paper libraries, and start documenting it. Do you know if anyone's doing this in an organized fashion? (I'm in the process of moving west, so I can't start doing this with my friendly town librarian, but I may try once I'm resettled.) Bill Stewart