E-mails and documents related to the Virginia Tech shootings and made available to victims' families Wednesday through a password-protected electronic archive were posted on the Web site of Tech's student newspaper Thursday.

The posted documents, which David Grant, editor-in-chief of the Collegiate Times estimated to be about 750 pages, are related to student shooter Seung-Hui Cho and the shootings. They include e-mail correspondence from Tech faculty and officials.

Cho killed 32 students and faculty and himself on April 16, 2007, but many of the e-mails related to his problems date to the fall of 2005.

The archive, which Tech gave families access to Wednesday as part of an $11 million wrongful death settlement reached in June, was to be released to the public in February. It includes both public information, such as the e-mails, and some private information related to the victims.

Grant said the Collegiate Times made an effort to avoid posting anything that would violate the families' privacy, but "it's a lot of information and there may be problems with it." If so, the paper is amenable to making changes to what is posted, he said.

A quick read of the documents contains no major revelations about the shootings but makes clear that Cho was called to the attention of university leaders and was the subject of extended discussion among English faculty. Included are notes English professor Cheryl Ruggiero took at a 2005 meeting between Cho and English professor Lucinda Roy after Cho's disturbing behavior in English professor Nikki Giovanni's class. Roy sent an e-mail about the meeting to Zenobia Hikes, vice president for student affairs, and Tom Brown, senior associate dean of students at the time.

Notes from the meeting describe Cho as distant and quiet but also mention that his hand trembled and he appeared near tears at the end. The meeting led Cho to take individual lessons with Roy, and correspondence between the two showed signs that the troubled student opened up to her more than to other professors.

Roy at one point wrote a poem for him and apparently consented to critique portions of a novel Cho was writing.

Documents show several English professors working hard to draw Cho out of his shell and to coordinate help for him, but his silence and sometimes frightening class behavior persisted. Roy offered to arrange for armed security for Giovanni before a meeting she had with Cho, according to an e-mail.

Cho's reputation spread quickly among English faculty. In an e-mail sent in September 2006 to colleagues Fred D'Aguiar, Nancy Metz and English department Chairwoman Carolyn Rude, English professor Lisa Norris described Cho as quiet but as a student who tested well and "did fair work" in a large class of hers he took the previous semester. But his behavior was an issue in a smaller class of hers in which he enrolled during the 2006 fall semester.

"He is extremely visible, and if you, Fred, have dealt with him, you know that he is not simply shy and quiet -- there is something else going on," she said in the e-mail.

The entire archive totals about 7,600 documents, many of which have already been made public. Much of the new information is contained in the collection of e-mails, which involved a search of some 150 university e-mail accounts.

Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said it appeared that one of the victims or family members gave their password to the Collegiate Times. Grant would not say how the paper obtained access to the archive.

The e-mails and scanned documents were organized and made available on specialized software that is similar to a searchable database. The delay in making the archive public would allow for the software to be tested as well as ensuring the protection of some information.

"We're already discovering things that the families believe shouldn't be up there, so that was the whole purpose of providing this thing in a protected way," Hincker said. "And as a result there's a chance that this protected personal information may get spilled to the public if they're going to share their information."

Staff writer Tonia Moxley contributed to this report