Mitchell Swartz writes:
"First, we sent Jed the files he's referred to in several formats. We have proof he received them AND he received the files by email too."
Nope. I couldn't read the CD ROM and I never saw an e-mail. Maybe my e-mail reader has a limit to the size of the message, or the server antivirus program whacked the file. It does that from time to time.
"Jed also got them and said that he had them as pdf files but wanted to key word hunts all through them. No mention of that in his missive, either."
That was earlier. I said pdf image files are too big to upload, and they do not allow searches for words. We decided to stop accepting image pdf files a long time ago.
"Briefly, Jed got them multiple times. In addition to CD-ROM, Jed got them by email and by snail mail."
We do not accept paper copies either, except in rare cases when the original machine-readable version has been lost. When a paper has many graphs and machine-readable versions still exist, I will not go to the trouble of OCR'ing it. I have explained this to many researchers, not only Swartz. A few of them insisted I work with paper, for some inexplicable reason. I finally drew the line with Arata and told him that under no circumstances would I scan his papers. A week later, voila, they came in the e-mail.
"In addition to the CD-ROM Jed received four formats."
There may be four formats and there may be a dozen, but I could not read a single byte. Swartz will have to do what 200 other authors have done. They had no difficulty, and neither will he. As much as I might like to make an exception and bend over backwards for him, I could not read the media he sent and I threw it away, so there is nothing more I can do.
Swartz should upload the papers on his own site, and give me the URL, so I can download them and prepare them for LENR-CANR.org. For that matter, he should give everyone the URL.
- Jed
