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2009/2/15 Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Sally Morris (Morris Associates) > <sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> The first step of the 'three step test' is important ? the use has to be a >> 'special case' (i.e. not systematic) > > The "non-systematicity" is in the author's individual, case-by-case decision > as to whether or not to fulfill each individual would-be user's eprint > request, Your Request-button-ideology is based on pure arbitrariness. If the author only has the mail adress of the requester and no university affiliation - what are the criteria to decide? Random? Or simply NO - the most scholars in my several tests have'nt reacted on my request button tests. As I have shown at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5193609/ the Request button isn't legal in Germany. Klaus Graf