Re: Mathematics 451: errata in the Internet age

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lee Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If I understand the arXiv's rules correctly (and, if I do not, I
>am sure someone knowledgeable will correct me), the version
>still available there will continue to be available there, even
>if and when later versions (including a possible complete r
>retraction, I suppose) are also available there, so marked.

Yes; for example, a paper that was advertised on this newsgroup a few
years ago (cs.CC/0004009) was withdrawn, but you can still get the
original version.

I agree with Dan that it's irritating when a supposedly permanent
document becomes unavailable.  The ArXiv's approach seems to be a
good one for permanent electronic documents (though I still think
of the ArXiv as primarily a *preprint* server, and maybe preprints
should be allowed to be temporary).
-- 
Tim Chow       tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great, will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us from
the center of the earth.  ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences