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> > 
> > 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
> 
> Duane,
> 
> Sounds a good idea. If such a site can be set up and run, I wish to join. I am fed up with the downloading and rating wars in the FEX.
> 
> Yi

I have free webspace available, but I do not have the software to manage the site. If someone had the capability to do that, we would be all set.

Duane