report on recent OEIS activity

[Leroy Quet]

>* N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> [040226 01:59]:
>> 
>> I am merging the obvious duplicates, and I am recycling
>> the A-numbers.  So if you submitted sequences recently, even
>> pre-numbered ones, they may end up with small A-numbers.
>
>I'm seeing an increasing number of published papers with explicit
>mention of A-numbers.  These authors clearly believe that A-numbers are
>a permanent label for a sequence.  I'm not sure this is enough reason
>to stop recycling A-numbers, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
>Brendan.


I mentioned a similar concern to Neil in an off-group email.

He replied that he was referring in his original message mostly to 
sequences which were duplicates, and almost never changes A-numbers 
generally.

In any case, I also suggested that if he did change an A-number, I 
suggested perhaps at least including a "forwarding address" at the 
web-pages of numbers which have been reassigned, so at least those 
directed wrongly to given A-numbers can still find the intended sequences 
anyway.

Leroy