[seqfan] Re: Summer hours - give me a break

Alexander P-sky apovolot at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 11:42:10 CEST 2010


Zak has a point.
There is no consistent well defined policy re acceptance/rejection of
the incoming sequences.
Also there is an inconsistency in between "what I say" and "what I do"
with regards to acceptance/rejection of the incoming sequences.

ARP
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On 8/18/10, zak seidov <zakseidov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Neil,
> SeqFans,
>
> One (among other things) thing that
> I ain't agree with  is
> these occasional "cries" about
> "usual suspects", "violators", "vacations" etc.
>
> Here we  have "contrive" problems
> that shouldn't be at all.
>
> I mean (and wrote many times in this list):
> make TWO files:
> received.txt and accepted.txt (=recent.txt) and
> that's all!!
>
> And even ONE more file: rejected.txt (this one for instructional,
> pedagogical purposes,
> very important from my POV:
> "silent rejection" is not appropriate!)
>
> No scientific/public edition has such a problem
> and no scientific/public edition EVER says:
> plz don't send us your submissions...
>
> With all due respect,
> Zak
>
> PS Hope with wiki these problems
> will disappear "silently" though.
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/17/10, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>> From: N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com>
>> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Summer hours - give me a break
>> To: seqfan at seqfan.eu
>> Cc: njas at research.att.com
>> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11:53 PM
>>
>> Max A. asked:
>>
>> > Neil, do you imply that the most of "violators" are
>> subscribers of SeqFan?
>> I (naively?) assumed that the reason of still high volume
>> of
>> submissions is that they come from the outside of the
>> SeqFan circle.
>>
>> Me: not sure of the answer. I suspect they ARE
>> subscribers.
>>
>> Of course it is people outside the circle (maybe they
>> saw the Science News article) who often send in
>> the best new sequences, which is why I have not posted any
>>
>> public notice about summer hours.
>>
>> And please remember, everyone, interesting new sequences,
>> especially with a real mathematical background, or from
>> a publication or web site, are always welcome.
>>
>> So are corrections of serious errors.
>>
>>
>>  Best regards
>>
>>      Neil
>>
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