ccdantas said:
Hello Marcus
Yes, fortunately William quicky corrected me. It's very nice to know that a student of the lectures is also reading my blog with great attention.
As I wrote there, I am thinking on the idea of posting my notes online. It would be nice if someone could review them before I post them onlne. If I had time, I would LaTeX them, but for the moment, I only expect to scan them...
Best wishes
Christine
the most usual thing, I believe, is to give the LECTURER a chance to look over the notes, at least before hardcopy publication.
I don't know the custom when it is a question of posting online.
One idea would be this: If you have a website, put them online at your website but do not reveal to the general public what the link is. then email the URL to Smolin and to any other reviewer.
Say: "I plan to make these notes to your course available on the web. Before I do so, if you would care to look them over and offer comments or corrections, here is the URL."
He might reply:
1. I am too busy but I have given the URL to a student of mine who will look over the notes and reply to you.
2. I am too busy, do anything you want. But thank you for giving me the chance to look at the notes before you published them.
3. One of my students actually is preparing notes and they will be available sometime this summer (!) on some other website. Write back to me in a few months and I will tell you the URL, if you want.
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I obviously can't tell you what is best or what could happen, but I have done this with reviewers when I had some writing. I put my writing online with a secret URL and give the URL only to one or two people that I want to check the work. then after a process of emendation or correction, I make the URL generally available.
I think this is what you had in mind.
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But you may not have been thinking of sending the secret URL to Smolin himself. I have tried to think about it from his point of view and I think he would consider it a courtesy to be offered the OPPORTUNITY to look over the notes before they were made widely available.
He might not actually do it, but at least he has the chance.
Also one or more of us at PF might be willing to and could simply write email to you asking for the "prepublication" URL.
I don't know where you get so much energy to do so much extra stuff. You are amazing
Who could who be? I'll never tell.
