OEIS on vacation in December

[Rob Pratt]

I apologize for calling names.  I had purposefully not mentioned any specific contributor or sequence in my original posting, and I should have kept to that. 

-----Original Message-----
From: zak seidov [mailto:zakseidov at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:34 AM
To: Antti Karttunen; Rob Pratt; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
Subject: Re: OEIS on vacation in December

Dear Antti, Rob, seqfans!

Should not some of us think twice
before using such words as "offender" (Rob) or "monkey" (Antti)?

What could the real seqfans
(amateur lamers as me)
learn from these "hot" words?

WADR, Zak

--- Antti Karttunen <antti.karttunen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 



 
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