lost submissions to OEIS

[Maximilian Hasler]

it would be easier to track if submissions would be done through the
upcoming web interface where newly added sequences are immediately
visible to selected users (e.g. the author, editors, admins...) and
can be (pre-)processed asynchronously by available associate editors
before they are finally released into the official OEIS by Neil.

;-)

Maximilian

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:05 AM, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>  Dear Friends,
>  It seems that sequences and comments are still being lost.
>
>  Richard Mathar said on Apr 20 that:
>
>  I've submitted this as follows (didn't get an e-mail acknowledgment, though):
>
>   Subject: NEW SEQUENCE FROM R. J. Mathar
>
>  %I A000001
>  %S A000001 697 925 1073 1105 1394 1850 2091 2146 2165 2210 2665 2775 2788 3219 3277 3315
>  3485 3700 3965 4181 4182 4225 4292 4330 4420 4453 4625 4879 5330 5365 5525
>  5550 5576 6005 6273 6438 6475 6495 6554 6630 6970 7085 7400 7511 7585 7667
>  7735 7930 7995 8325 8362 8364 8450 8584 8660 8840 8906 9061 9250 9657 9673
>  9758 9773 9831 9945 9997 10175 10455 10660 10730 10825 11050 11100 11152 11285
>  11713 11803 11849 11895 12010 12025 12155 12325 12543 12546 12675
>  %N A000001 Largest member z of a triple 0<x<y<z such that z^2-y^2, z^2-x^2 and y^2-x^2 are pe
>  rfect squares.
>  ...
>
>  This never reached me!  It is not in the queue, and it is not in the OEIS.
>
>  If you don't get the automatic acknowledgement, then probably
>  the submission never reached me.
>
>  If you don't get the automatic acknowledgement, send me
>  the sequence or comment by direct email!
>
>  When you fill out the web page, this is on our external machine.
>  To get the message through the firewall, I use email to myself,
>  with a copy to you.  So if that email fails, I will not see the message.
>
>  If you find this happening, please send me email giving the
>  time and day when it happened, so I can get the people here
>  to track down what happened.  I have already reported this several
>  times, but it still keeps happening.
>
>  In summary: if you don't get the acknowledgment, send me the
>  message again via direct email.
>
>  Neil
>
>



Leroy asks if there are known examples
where someone received the automatic acknowledgement,
but the submission never reached me.

The answer is that I don't know of any such examples.

As far as submissions of new sequences are concerned,
I am now up to date, I think.
So if you submitted a sequence and it is not presently
in the OEIS (there will be a new version in 5 minutes),
then 
either it did not reach me
or I rejected it.

As far as "Comments" are concerned, I still have
I'm going to do.

Neil