The documents in the directories iowaconsumercase.org/ and www.iowaconsumercase.org/ were downloaded from http://iowaconsumercase.org and http://www.iowaconsumercase.org through the use of 'wget', over the course of several days via dialup (28800) connection. The PDF documents and text documents are part of the public record in the case of Comes v. Microsoft. It is not so certain that the HTML files retrieved from those websites are a part of the record, so those files do not appear in this archive. Note that anything appearing outside of the directories iowaconsumercase.org/ and www.iowaconsumercase.org are not part of the archive from the Comes v. Microsoft case websites. The documents in those two directories may be freely copied. (This README.txt and wget-log.tar.gz may also be freely copied, but neither file came from either Iowa case website). The only evidence I can offer that these documents, in fact, came from those Iowa case websites is my log of the wget retrieval. That is available in this directory as 'wget-log.tar.gz' and is also not part of the archive. The intent of mirroring the websites was to have a local copy for reading. Shortly after the mirroring completed, the Iowa plaintiffs settled and the Iowa websites were password protected. It was not clear at the time whether it was permissible to republish the documents elsewhere, nor was there any indication the documents might be yanked out of public reach on the web. This is why I did not take the faster route of using my hosting service's very much higher bandwidth to mirror directly to my website from the Iowa websites. When the password protection blocked public view of the documents, I started the slow process of uploading my mirror to my website. These documents should be mirrored widely, as-is; they should not require that interested parties obtain printed copies directly from the Iowa court. -- "grouch" http://edge-op.org/iowa/ 2007-02-26