From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sat Nov 24 01:27:00 2012
From: "Igor Filippov igor.v.filippov() gmail.com" <owner-chemistry:+:server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: Requests for Structural Realism article of Prof. Scerri
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Sent to CCL by: Igor Filippov [igor.v.filippov|a|gmail.com]
I guess we have to disagree as to what to call "informational".
My publications might not be much but they are quite easy to find by
those interested in reading them, yet somehow I managed to publish my
research without forcing it down everyone's throat.
What if everyone will start advertising every single article they
publish here? Hitting the delete key will get old very fast.
It's one thing to call attention to an interesting publication of
someone else, but to self-promote like this leaves a bad aftertaste.

He is not even subscribed to this list himself. This is telling.

Anyhow, this is just my opinion.

Igor

On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:10 -0600, Tom Albright talbright:+:uh.edu
wrote:
> Sent to CCL by: Tom Albright [talbright|,|uh.edu]
> What??? Look if one wants the community to see an article why not publicize it? The delete key ain't hard to hit. I see so much stuff in this list that can be easily handled if one first had the barest of understanding of the methodology and secondly one had read the users manual. I just hit the delete key. So here is an informational post and you have to criticize as being self-aggrandizing?  Look Igor - I have no intention in reading the article by Scerri - nor have I ever met him, but boy do you and the others that have criticized a post like this aggravate me! Self- serving? I think so... Astro-turfing - I think not! Why not publish something yourself?
> On Nov 23, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Igor Filippov igor.v.filippov||gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sent to CCL by: Igor Filippov [igor.v.filippov^_^gmail.com]
> > The whole thing has a feel of one organized astro-turfing campaign.
> > That's the conclusion I reached after seeing so many requests sent to
> > the list for a publication which was so blatantly self-promoted.
> > 
> > Igor
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 18:37 -0500, Jan Labanowski janl%speakeasy.net
> > wrote:
> >> Sent to CCL by: Jan Labanowski [janl---speakeasy.net]
> >> I am seeing a number  requests for the 
> >> 
> >> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628920.200-are-you-really-a-realist.html
> >> 
> >> article that was announced to CCL by Prof. Eric Scerri. Please realize that:
> >> 
> >> 1) you are sending your requests to a few thousands people rather than to the
> >> author who announced it.
> >> 
> >> 2) Prof. Scerri is not a CCL subscriber, so he will not likely see your requests,
> >> i.e., you are wasting yours and other people bandwidth and time (clicking on the
> >> [Delete] button takes time).
> >> 
> >> If I wanted to read the article, I would just contact the author rather than a
> >> few thousands other people who have nothing to do with it...
> >> 
> >> Jan Labanowski
> >> CCL Maintainer> 
>