[seqfan] Re: Re Helping with my "overflow"

[M. F. Hasler]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 14:49 Sean A. Irvine  wrote:

> The way we deal with this problem in our company is with a shared mailbox.
> Its definitely not a perfect solution (...)


An alternative and maybe more efficient implementation of this idea of a
shared mailbox would be a shared folder and/or document(s) on the cloud
(e.g. Google docs) which could be edited by anyone who's given permission (or
just a link) to do so. I will make a more concrete proposal to Neil and see.

Maximilian

>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 06:22, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The drawback to all those helpful suggestions is that many of the
> messages that I am talking about come from members of the general public -
> people who know nothing much about the OEIS, random people from anywhere in
> the
> > world.  Children, physicians, ...
> > I can't ask them to register with the OEIS to get an answer.  (Well, I
> > could, but I won't.
>



> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:17 PM Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >= Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
> > > > Jon Awbrey suggested that I put these emails on a page in our Wiki,
> so
> > > >I that all OEIS users could see them.  But I would not be comfortable
> doing
> > > that...
> > >
> > > But it would be unobjectionable if the correspondent were to post their
> > > own query.
> > >
> > > Writers could just be politely directed to such a page[*] by any of us.
> > >
> > > Of course any public discussion venue is potentially afflicted by
> spam and trolls.
> > > Perhaps simply requiring posters to be registered OEIS users would be
> sufficient?
> > >
> > > [*] and/or Math Overflow
>