I don't think it is considered a "core responsability", Howard, except that Dick likes to make the DT available to others in a variety of formats.

Mudcat is just one location where the DT which is maintained by Dick can be viewed. Mudcat is however provides the main Internet presence, or home if you like. It is also the main collection point for additions and corrections to the DT. It is also a stite with existing database and (although I think there would be higher priorities at the moment) programming capabilites, incliding, as far as I know, a database containing all the dt material up to the last release from Dick.

The ideal on that side by my way of thinking would be a Mudcat development that Dick could use to input rather than a dt development.