request for advice

[A.N.W.Hone]

Dear Neil,

I also agree that it's best to be tough on such contributions,
and let the contributor submit at most one sequence per day
(or even one a week).

You are to be congratulated on creating a most excellent
resource of information for both professional and recreational
mathematicians alike, and it is essential that the high
quality of the OEIS is maintained.

If superseeker can generate the sequences defined by
these sorts of rules, then there's no reason to include them
in the database.

Best wishes,
Andy Hone

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:

> 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 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.
>
> Then we can have
>
> Numbers n such that n and 2n-1 belong to AXXXXXX.,
>
> another 100,000, and then
>
> Numbers n such that n and n^2+1 belong to AXXXXXX.,
>
> another 100,000, and so on.
>
> My question is, would you please tell me what I should do?
>
> 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
>
> Thanks
>
> NJAS
>