OEIS down?

[zak seidov]

Two points:
1) I use "Save your sent messages in the Sent Items
folder" option of Yahoo while submitting via e-mail,
not CC to myself.
2) Is gmail better (safer) than Yahoo? 
What does seqfan people's exprience say about it?
Zak

--- franktaw at netscape.net wrote:

> 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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