On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:18:42PM -0500, Albert Henderson wrote:
> In short, I would not be so sure that LANL's service is not
> "filled with rubbish."
It takes some chutzpah for an outsider to speculate that established,
self-respecting authors are writing rubbish. Indeed there is no good
reason to speculate at all, since it's all out in the open. For example
here are the 19 articles (+ 5 cross-listings) in the geometric topology
category in the math arXiv in February:
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GT/0102
Which ones are "rubbish"? The one by Alexander Dranishnikov? The two
by Stavros Garoufalidis and Jerome Levine? The one by Hugh Morton?
I know these people. Whatever shortcoming of their work you have in
mind, I'd be happy to let them know.
> LANL's most effective feature perhaps is its use of
> XXX -- an insignia that keeps out children who are protected by
> parental controls from Internet peril.
xxx means different things in different contexts and serious researchers
have never cared all that much. But it was finally enough of a
distraction that they did get rid of it. That's why it's called the
arXiv now. The recommended web address is arxiv.org. xxx.lanl.gov is
kept only for the sake of old URLs.
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