OEIS down?

[franktaw at netscape.net]

The problems are probably with your personal service provider(s).  
Yahoo seems to have problems; I've had similar problems recently with 
AIM mail - including one email I got a full week later.  It's not 
restricted to OEIS submissions, either.

As for sending it directly, while this does let you send yourself a 
copy, it's a longer total loop: your provider -> intermediaries -> AT&T 
-> Neil -> AT&T -> intermediaries -> your provider -> you.  The 
submission via the web site just goes AT&T -> Neil -> AT&T -> 
intermediaries -> your provider -> you.  So you're increasing the 
chance of something going wrong - and especially increasing the chance 
of the sequence not making it to the database.

And one of the things that can go wrong is that somebody along this 
chain may decide that your lines are too long, and wrap them for you - 
potentially creating errors in the sequence.

Franklin T. Adams-Watters


-----Original Message-----
From: jvospost3 at gmail.com

   Today I successfully submitted several sequences. A couple of them 
took between 5 minutes and a half hours for the autoreply email to get 
through to my Yahoo account, so I continued backing up (back button in 
the browser) after submission, then emailing myself back-up copies cut 
& pasted from the preview. Finally, I submitted a sequence and, though 
I repeatedly checked my email, no autoreply was received after over 3 
hours. So I hit the submit button on the form I'd backed up and kept 
open all the time, except with a comment added as to the delay and 
resubmission. Within less than 30 seconds I got the email on the 
resubmit.

  Again, I can't say if the problem is (1) with my 
browser/PC/modem/router; (2) with the cable, local loop, Yahoo, 
internet path; or (3) with the OEIS server, software, email 
application; or (4) items (2) or (1) on the reverse path back from OEIS 
to my email inbox. But there's a problem somewhere, at least sometimes, 
and Zak Seidov is hardly in my geographic neighborhood, so it looks 
more global than local, loosely speaking. How many sunmissions that I 
made never showed up, compared to the 1370 already in the database? 
probably a very small fraction, but it makes me wonder if I shouldn't 
have been backing up all the time.

 Does anyone else see this happen, sometimes?

On 10/28/06, zak seidov <zakseidov at yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe that I see, over the past weeks,
> increasingly long delays between
> submitting a sequence and getting the email server
> autoreply. It may be a
> flaw in Yahoo (which seqfans properly ignores in
> favor of gmail) but it is
> sometimes on the order of an hour. I have
> resubmitted, not knowing if the
> first one worked. I have taken to cutting and
> pasting the preview into
> email to myself as backup.
>
> Again, I can't tell if there is a problem at my end,
> OEIS server-side, or
> somehwere in between. Am I alone in this
> observation?

Sure you ain't alone:
See duplicate A122700/A122769
which is result of my repeating resubmitting
due to OEIS server autoreply delays...

<Sorry Jonathan I skip your next =magnificient as
usual= text>

Zak



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