request for advice

[Bob Barbour]

Hi Brendan, Neil, Seqfans,

2D Cellular automata are integer sequence firehoses.
Vary any of the input parameters and a new sequence is generated.

Mostly, the new sequences are not interesting in themselves being merely variAnts of prior sequences. I don't submit sequences generated by variAnts. Perhaps similar restraint could be exercised by the creator of the flood of sequences.

Bob

Dr Robert H Barbour
Unitec Doctoral Program
School of Computing and Information Technology
Unitec
New Zealand

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>>> Brendan McKay <bdm at cs.anu.edu.au> 03/11/06 7:40 PM >>>
Neil, It sounds like you don't have much of a choice except to
be tough.  You could tell this person to send the most interesting
sequence s/he can find each day as you cannot accept more than
that.  Of course you could later increase this quota if the most
interesting sequence per day turns out to be very interesting.

If, otoh, s/he ignores your request, block the email address.

Brendan.

* N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> [060311 17:15]:
> Ps
> 
> This is a postscript to my previous message.
> 
> Perhaps the best solution - suggested earlier in a similar context -
> is to tell this person that he can submit just one sequence per day.
> 
> Others will be deleted.
> 
> What do people think?  Is this too harsh?
> 
> NJAS