As an independent researcher in machine vision, I take strong issue with your first statement - the gateways to science controlled by a beauty contest/club membership is fundamentally horrible science. However with your third paragraph you completely redeemed yourself - I'd argue if you've published, I'd guess you'd be quite happy with anyone reading the paper, it's just the emails from cranks that are a pain :-) Practically I find that any paper I want can be found by tracking down the authors institutional home page - they always seem to find some way to make it available :-) Yay them!