If those are your convictions, then you have to do more than just not file; you ought to publish them in a way that allows them to be used in a prior art defense.
It can be hard. My dorm's laundry server[1] was actually Slashdotted shortly before someone filed for a patent on the idea of hooking up a webserver to a laundry machine. Luckily, being covered in the mass media does put you in a good position if you get a cease and desist letter, though.
Aren't there journals where you pay a small (in comparison) fee to publish your prior art in a place specifically where the patent office won't overlook it?
