We understand fine. The standard is freely available and reusable, the implementations are free software (now that Chez has become so), the process is as open

We understand fine. The standard is freely available and reusable, the implementations are free software (now that Chez has become so), the process is as open as can be. If you'd rather maintain your own archive of posts, please do, and let us know where it is. As things stand, the posts that weren't on Google Groups lists have been lost because the person who volunteered to maintain them (I had no influence over that decision) didn't keep backups.