> if the ACM wants to start putting those papers up in HTML
ACM just set up a "trial deal" for access for programmers at my (largish) company. It's extremely expensive from what I've heard, so I don't think they're just going to throw them up on the web any time soon.
But that shouldn't matter, if the ACM wants to start putting those papers up in HTML for the world to read that would be my preference anyway.