request for advice

[Joerg Arndt]

* N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> [Mar 11. 2006 06:50]:
> Dear seqfans and editors:
>
> There is a contributor to the OEIS who in the past has sent in some interesting
> sequences, but most of his submissions are to my mind not very interesting.
>
> Two or three weeks ago, finding that I was spending all my time
> processing his sequences, which were flooding the OEIS,
> (there were a huge number of them)
> I asked him never to send in further sequences.
>
> I felt that he was trying to make the OEIS look ridiculous.
>

He/she may not do that intentionally but the effect on the OEIS is the same.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity"


> He has now resumed submissions.  His latest submissions are
> of the form:
>
> Numbers n such that n and 2n+1 belong to AXXXXXX.
>
> Of course there is the potential here for 100,000 new
> sequences.

OMG!!

>
> [... *shudder* ...]

Hope you tagged already submitted garbage like that.


>
> I will keep track of the number of replies that I get that say,
> this is just fine, accept them all
> and those that say
> enough already, pipe his submissions to /dev/null

To /dev/null please!  ...as with all spam

Or (slightly friendlier):
Make it a rule for that person to send each new seq. to the
list before submitting it.  Each with reason(s) why interesting.

If you go for the "once in so much time" restriction (followup mail)
then once a week is very acceptable IMHO.

>
> Thanks
>
> NJAS

jj,
who'll post further seqs to this list and only submit
if at least two people agree on worthiness.
(Don't panic, I submit quite rarely).