Mitchell Swartz wrote:
Rothwell: As I said, I could not read the CD-ROM, and I do not deal with
physical paper, unless the electronic copies have been lost.
First, Rothwell purports that he did not know if a paper was written . . .
Actually, as I said before, I did not think that was a paper. It looked
like notes or a PowerPoint presentation. That would be fine, by the way. We
have several informal PowerPoint presentations on file.
I admit, I was not paying close attention, because this was right after
Gene's funeral and I had other things on my mind. When I found I could not
read the CD-ROM, I trashed it. In retrospect, it is a good thing I tossed
it out because Swartz is now threatening to sue me if I upload any of his
papers.
but THEN he admits he received it but "could not read the CD-ROM" . . .\
Yup. Good thing, too.
and THEN he also admits he also received it in hand but could "not deal
with physical paper".
Not "could not" -- will not. I am not going to spend hours recreating an
electronic file that the author can send me in a few minutes. Swartz is not
the first to make this demand, by the way. A couple of snooty academic
professors demanded I work with paper because they "did not have time" to
e-mail me the original. I told them both to go jump in a lake. Remarkably
enough, they both found the time to dig up the files and send them.
It is OFFICIAL: Jed Rothwell appears caught in his own net of falsehoods
again.
These are mere misunderstandings on Swartz's part, and this whole
discussion is a tempest in a teapot.
- Jed
