At 11:14 AM 10/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Actually none of this is necessary. If it is posted on his own
website, then all
you need on LENR-CANR.org is a URL pointing to it iso to your own
web site. It
wouldn't matter in the slightest to the rest of the world where the actual
document resides.
Robin has a point. Whenever, for whatever reason, you cannot host a
document, having a URL posted to where the document is hosted would
be useful. This could be to the sites of publishers, as with many
peer-reviewed papers you list but don't host for lack of
permission, or to other hosts.
Regarding Swartz's papers, I have no reason to upload them either in
part or in whole. They do not seem important to me and I do not care
whether anyone reads them. They have no political significance. When
I uploaded his abstract here (not even to LENR-CANR!) he went ape
shit and threatened dire legal repercussions. Even his response here
was over the top. So I am not going to upload any part of his work
to LENR-CANR without unmistakably clear permission.
The usefulness of lenr-canr.org would increase somewhat if the
bibliography included useful links. I have some suggestions about how
to implement this, without increasing the burden on Jed, he already
carries a lot, but I'll leave that for later. I do consider Jed's
position reasonable. Swartz's papers papers should clearly be
included with any complete bibliography on cold fusion, regardless of
his personality or other problems, and there is no legal issue from
listing papers in a bibliography or pointing to abstracts. Actually
hosting an abstract is probably acceptable as well, unless the
abstract is not published and available. I recognize that in extreme
situations, then, not listing an abstract but only giving
bibliographic information is possibly appropriate or necessary.
