[seqfan] Re: All 170 or so links to Erich Friedman's pages are now broken

[Alonso Del Arte]

I thought we already had our own backup? e.g.,
http://oeis.org/wiki/Annotated_version_of_%22What%27s_Special_About_This_Number%3F%22_(Part_0)

Al

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 9:48 AM Nick Ham <nicholas.charles.ham at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Sequence Fans,
>
> Given what Stetson university have recently done, it seems worthwhile to
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>
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>
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> Regards,
> Nick Ham
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 10:51 AM Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wrong.  Even though many of the titles to the  links to Erich
> > Friedman's pages are the same, the actual URLs are mostly different. I
> > counted 98 different pages. I'll be happy to send a list to anyone who
> > would like it.  I have written to Erich.  (I hope he kept copies)
> >
> > Here is a typical OEIS entry (I give the internal format):
> >
> > %I
> >
> > %S 1,1,2,3,5,8,11,17,22,31,38,52
> >
> > %N Number of linear n-celled polyominoes, those with the property that a
> > line can be drawn that intersects the interior of every cell.
> >
> > %H E. J. Friedman, <a href="
> > http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/0301.html">Math. Magic</a>
> >
> > %K hard,nice,nonn
> >
> > %O 1,3
> >
> > %A _Jason Earls_, Apr 18 2001
> >
> > Although we have many links to his Math Magic pages , it is the link to
> > 0301.html that is unique.
> >
> >
> > 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 Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:52 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Sequence Fans,
> > >
> > > Bill Gosper just informed me that with no warning, Stetson University
> > > has stopped hosting web pages.  Here is his message:
> > >
> > > From: Erich Friedman <efriedma at stetson.edu>
> > > Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:37 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Erich: No more
> > > https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html
> > > ??
> > > To: Bill Gosper <billgosper at gmail.com>
> > > my university, in its infinite wisdom, decided without warning that it
> > > would no longer host personal webpages.  sorry.
> > >
> > > perhaps this material will appear somewhere else someday.
> > >
> > > erich
> > >
> > > ----
> > > We seem to have  about 176 links from OEIS entries to stetson web
> pages,
> > >
> > > Fortunately there do not seem to be too many different links.
> > >
> > > All except these two have Erich as author, I think:
> > >
> > > %H A053392 Lars Blomberg, <a href="
> > > https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/0200/PDSC.pdf">Notes
> (2011)
> > > on Problem of the Month (February 2000).</a>
> > >
> > > %H A098092 Math Magic <a href="
> > > http://www.stetson.edu/%7Eefriedma/mathmagic/0403.html">Problem of the
> > > Month (April 2003)</a>
> > >
> > > I will ask Erich if it will be OK if we put local copies on the OEIS
> > > server.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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