[seqfan] Re: something went wrong with new oeis this afternoon

Alexander P-sky apovolot at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 04:53:19 CET 2010


> As for confirmation, I have to check the website later anyway, to see if the
> submission was processed.
>So why can't people do that? -- Alexander?
Robert - yes, people could do that if they like it, but why settle for
less and compensate program functional deficiencies locally via
"fix-it-yourself" approach ?

ARP
On 11/13/10, Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I create my submissions and edits in a file, before putting them into the
> web form. Therefore I automatically have a record of everything I submit.
>
> My local editor is much faster, doesn't need to be on-line to function, and
> isn't limited to a little rectangle. I never thought of doing it any
> differently.
>
> As for confirmation, I have to check the website later anyway, to see if the
> submission was processed. That has always been true, because there was no
> email to tell me it was processed.
>
> So why can't people do that? -- Alexander?
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 19:06, Alexander P-sky <apovolot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >(it is possible a few edits may be lost, but hopefully not many)
>>
>> Above supports my suggestion to implement emails sent from OEIS to
>> authors/editors, reflecting change of status and containing changes
>> made.
>>
>> [...]
>> Besides for asking for bringing back that feature for the backwards
>> compatibility reason alone, those confirmation emails also in the
>> previous OEIS format served authors to retain on their end as some
>> way of the history record keeping, which I am hoping many other
>> submitters besides me would appreciate ?
>>
> [...]
>>
>
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