Re: JSH: Just plain silly

From: Quinn Tyler Jackson (quinn-j_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:03:37 GMT

W. Dale Hall:

> So what is the revisionist history you are carping to sci.math about?

1. "I am glad to infrom you that your paper entitled: 'Advanced Polynomial
Factorization' has appeared in SWJPAM Issue 2,(2003,pp.6-8.)" (Note: Number,
date, page range.)

2. Usenet post quoting email to editor: "Dear Sirs, The December 2003 issue
of your journal, Southwest Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,
publishes the article 'Advanced Polynomial Factorization' by James Harris.
This note is to inform you that the article's main result, the claim that
the factorization of the polynomial..."

3. "Your paper entitlled 'Advanced polynomial factorization' has been
rejected for publication in swjpam. [...] Below you can find portions of the
reviewers report. [...] Dear Sirs, This note is to inform you that the
article's main result, the claim that the factorization of the polynomial
...." (Note absence of the reference to the fact that the "reviewer's" email
commenting on the article CAME AFTER PUBLICATION.)

<Allegedly>
You know when you sent that email, Dale. Are you comfortable with the fact
that the first sentence (showing that it came AFTER publication) was
allegedly removed, so that it would appear to have been a review submitted
BEFORE publication?
</Allegedly>

Revisionist history.

Call me a harper. OK. Fine. Do you at all have any understanding of why the
above made me angry? Or is it just OK when that happens to James Harris
because special rules of academic protocol apply to James Harris? 

--
Quinn