On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:58:14PM +0000, Tim Brody wrote: > I may also point out that there are already archives that perform > distributed mirroring - math arXiv is primarily made up of papers that > have been archived elsewhere (judging by the lack of associated meta > data and updates).
I don't understand this comment. Most of the papers in the math arXiv are eventually published, and many are in preprint series of one sort or another. However I conjecture that at least half of the submissions in the most recent three months are not on any other web site, not even on a home page. And for those that are not published or not yet published, the arXiv is the only project that explicitly promises to keep them permanently. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *
