I had dinner with Ginsparg once and he's a wonderful guy. I'm glad the arxiv was created when it was, in an earlier less scammy era of the internet. Otherwise t

I had dinner with Ginsparg once and he's a wonderful guy. I'm glad the arxiv was created when it was, in an earlier less scammy era of the internet. Otherwise the nowadays equivalent might be owned by Elsevier or some random tech company.