| To my surprise, I got a brief email from them today, saying "if you want to put your paper on the internet then why do you want to publish your paper in a journal" ! I wrote back with the obvious reply "The internet is not refereed; it looks much better if I publish my papers in journals, but it's much more convenient for a 'mathematician on the street' if I publish my paper on my web page too; to be honest, if you insist on taking away my rights to publish the paper on my web page then I will strongly consider publishing elsewhere". They wrote back to me saying essentially "I think it is sad that you are not seeing things from the publishers point of view. Consider what you are doing and get back to us". |