OEIS on vacation in December

[Antti Karttunen]

zak seidov wrote:

>Rob, seqfans!
>...
>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 
>  
>

I think the bottom-line is this: If you (here I mean. any potential 
submitter) are
not _yourself enthralled_ about the beauty and relevance of your
sequence, then please _do not_ submit it. It's not the task of
Neil to teach people to see what's the difference between the grains
and the chaff, like it's not the task of publishing companies 
(frequently used
metaphor here) to wait when those monkeys have finally written the works 
of Shakespeare.
(They should realize it by themselves!)

I think that the "good submitter" is the one which has a specific idea 
or "theme" that
(s)he keeps following on, and even if the submitted sequences might not 
(yet) make much
sense to more mainstream mathematicians, then at least they make sense
to the submitter himself, and are highly relevant in that "theme".

E.g. Jon Awbrey and his "riff-and-rote" related sequences,
Creighton Dement and his floretions,
Marc LeBrun and his "numbral" and re-indexing stuff,
Leroy Quet and his many permutations,
etc.
and those many professionals and also hobbyists that work
in more mainstream generatingfunctionological framework.


Cordially,

Antti