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> Yes. TMW refuses to moderate the FEX, virtually
> encouraging the spammers to dump their dreck
> upon it, both as files and as "ratings". At most
> they will send a quiet e-mail to those same
> spammers, asking them to improve their behavior.
> 
> Worse, they are now encouraging hundreds
> of new pieces of useless dreck to clutter it up. 
> 
> I'm expecting to follow Duane soon now. It is
> their FEX, and they can do as they wish.
> 
> What is sad is the FEX could have been a good
> repository for code.

I concur completely. John speaks with wisdom.

Can someone set up a simple moderated FEX somewhere? Preferably one that only lets the moderators comment on the code. Allowing public comments always brings out the lowest common denominator. I will gladly contribute my time as a moderator.

The site need only have a few categories and allow some searching. The presented description of each submission could/should be the help text at the top of the submission, i.e., >>help filename output. In that way good help text conforming to MATLAB formatting would be required and would be consistent across all submissions.

This site would not have thousands of submissions, but rather no more than a couple hundred of the most useful. We don't need a dozen submissions that perform Gaussian elimination with or without pivoting.

Duane