I should think it is more likely that this rule is the reason:

"7. Advertising is forbidden in any relation to your account except by explicit permission. This includes, but is not limited to, advertising websites and commercial-related or competing products."

However, I certainly appreciate your point about the files of other members being of interest so that one can see how they use BB, and as a learning tool. It is a great shame therefore that, after many years, the Yahoo Group that did have a huge archive of BB tune files with melodies is now going to be taken down. I would join with others in thanking Jan Willem for his dedicated maintenance of those files over the years. Most of those files are still available elsewhere if you know where to go! They certainly have been a great source of inspiration to me and, just occasionally, I found the melody line for a tune that was absolutely unobtainable as published sheet music. Having this resource available never stopped me buying sheet music - I have two overloaded book cases absolutely full of yellowing music, including all the legal real books and despite their being available all over the place in more convenient illegal disk form.

If you hop over there quickly Harry, you may be able to grab those archives and put them on your hard disk, before they disappear and the copyright police throw Willem into a deep dark dungeon.

Oh, and you will even find Notes Norton's note over there - in case that is one of the posts you were missing - although I do agree with rule 7 and think that advertising is a plague on fora in general.

Merimbula! What a great jazz festival you folks put on every year. In my opinion, the best in Australia. I have missed going for a couple of years but I'll be back!

Grah Jive Talk
"Don't worry baby, they'll swing their arses off."