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

[Neil Sloane]

MFH,  I accepted your invitation to the Google Docs thing.

But I would still feel uncomfortable about putting an email from a total
stranger
on a cloud site.

I will stick to man-to-man emails for the moment.


Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
Email: njasloane at gmail.com



On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 8:43 PM M. F. Hasler <seqfan at hasler.fr> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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