There are several methods to block spam. Yet there are some stupid individuals (SpamHaus and the likes of them) who blacklist servers which sent spam. These stupid individuals cannot imagine that the IP of a spamming server can be shared with the IP of an innocent domain, like roua.org here. As a result, no matter [...]

TRS asks (by the way, TRS, please publish your statements in a reusable format, so I can quote your text accurately; printing it on paper, then scanning it and publishing the pdf containing the scan is much more expensive: I waste time retyping your text, somebody’s wasting time by manipulating such non-semantic objects; the modern [...]

Just happy that other people too have deep concerns about the open-access issue: Fellows of The Royal Society reacted promptly, with an open letter. (The reader would be able to put things in context by perusing also the links therein, one of which is to the RCUK position statement on research outputs, june 2005.) TRS’s [...]