OEIS down?

[Marc LeBrun]

There may be multiple culprits, but I've had Yahoo unaccountably sit 
on mail for TWO WEEKS!  I host my business eMail (& web site etc) on 
Yahoo--as do several of the start-ups I work with.  The headers 
during one of these massive snafus showed the delay was happening 
between two of Yahoo's internal servers.  And other folks have 
reported similar problems--eg I think Ed Pegg got so fed up he 
finally moved mathpuzzle.com to a non-Yahoo host (I've been lazier, 
but my default eMail return address no longer goes through 
Yahoo).  So you might at least start by trying to eliminate Yahoo 
from any critical path.

An alternative might be to submit the internal format, eMailing it 
directly (instead of using the web page).  That way, you can CC 
yourself, always have a copy without the manual cut-&-paste, and be 
able to check a whole batch at once, later, when convenient.

The only thing eMailing the internal format loses is the congeniality 
of the web form.  Hmm... come to think of it, it shouldn't be to hard 
to make a little Java program that seqfans would run *locally* (ie on 
their client machine, not the OEIS server), that would wrap the form 
fields with the internal formatting and eMail it to the OEIS, CCing 
whoever you want.  Anyone out there interested in hacking something like this?