OEIS on vacation in December

[franktaw at netscape.net]

For whatever reasons, Neil is very reluctant to reject sequences.  I'm
not going to presume to speak for him on the reasons for this.
However, in my opinion, this does mean that those of us submitting
sequences should be restrained in submitting sequences.  (Really,
that restraint would be called for, anyhow.)

Just as an example, there are hundreds of sequences in the OEIS
for primes with a particular digit pattern - some with the primes
and some with their indices.

Franklin T. Adams-Watters

P.S. "prime author:seidov" finds 1085 matches.

-----Original Message-----
From: zakseidov at yahoo.com

  Rob, seqfans!

Most of these 1174  "prime seidov"'s
are not of mine, I beleive.

And even all 25594 "prime" sequences
in OEIS have been submitted by me - what then?

Why have Neil and co-editors ACCEPTED them?

(I repeated some 1,000 times that
one should discriminate between RECEIVED and
ACCEPTED submissions).

It is a general policy (and undisputed right)
of any editor board to select/reject/accept
submissions.

WARD (=with all due respect),
Zak

PS You may call me "prime" offender,
but my salary (which is zero) doesn't depend
on the number of "my sequences" appeared in OEIS,
and I don't mind if you'll remove all
(OK, most of) my submisions from OEIS.

WARD,
Zak


--- Rob Pratt <Rob.Pratt at sas.com> wrote:

> Zak,
>
> You are one of the "prime" offenders.  A search on
> "prime seidov" returns 1174 sequences.
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zak seidov [mailto:zakseidov at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: Rob Pratt; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
> Subject: RE: OEIS on vacation in December
>
>
> --- Rob Pratt <Rob.Pratt at sas.com> wrote:
>
> > Because overzealous contributors have swamped the
> database with
> > sequences that have a contrived relationship to
> prime numbers.
> >
> > Rob Pratt
>
> OK!
>
> But dear Rob, dear Neil, dear co-editors, and dear
> seqfans!!
>
> Why not simply to reject such "probably not"
> submissions???!!!
>
> I "have swamped the list with this Q"
> and have never got a reasonable explanation....
>
> WADR (=with all duty respect),
> Zak
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Baruchel [mailto:tbaruchel at free.fr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:19 AM
> > To: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
> > Subject: Re: OEIS on vacation in December
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> > > - don't send in sequences that you made up
> (unless
> > >   they are really beautiful - and if they
> > >   are base dependent or involve primes
> > >   they are probably not)
> >
> > Just a question ; I do understand very well why
> base dependent
> > sequences aren't really beautiful, but I sincerely
> wonder why
> > sequences which involve prime numbers "are
> probably not". Why? Aren't
> > they the most beautiful ones?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Baruchel
> >




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