I do not do free work for journals published by publishers who make enormous profits and pay nothing in return either to the authors or reviewers. In choosing to publish your proccedings in such a journal rather than in the many journals that charge between 0 and and a tenth what Elsevier does, you have chosen a path that ultimately would lead to the destruction of scholarship. It is insulting to ask me to cooperate in such a venture. Sincerely yours, Michael Barr On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Advances in Set-Theoretic Topology, the Organizing Committee wrote:
Dear Professor Barr,
We would like to ask you to referee the enclosed manuscript that has been submitted for possible publication in the Special Issue of the journal "Topology and its Applications" dedicated to the Proceedings of the Conference "Advances in Set-Theoretic Topology" (in Honour of Tsugunori Nogura on his 60th Birthday).
In order to facilitate timely processing of the whole volume of the proceedings, we would appreciate having a referee report by April 20, 2009.
Please, let us know by the return e-mail whether you are willing to referee this manuscript. If you are unable to referee this paper, we would appreciate it very much if you could kindly indicate us three people who in your opinion could serve as ponential referees for this article.
We are looking forward to your feedback on our request by January 31.
Best Wishes,
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Szymon Dolecki (Burgundy University, France) Yasunao Hattori (Shimane University, Japan) Dmitri Shakhmatov (Ehime University, Japan) Gino Tironi (University of Trieste, Italy)
Guest Editors of the Special Issue of "Topology and its Applications" dedicated to the Proceedings of the Conference "Advances in Set-Theoretic Topology" (in Honour of Tsugunori Nogura on his 60th Birthday)
erice@dmitri.math.sci.ehime-u.ac.jp