[RAS] automatic suggestions count

[Christian Zimmermann]

People getting automatic suggestions by email typically get in their 
message a line like:

"BTW, you still have 104 other documents which were found earlier but
still wait for your decision. See them on your Research profile's
automatic search suggestions page." (example from attached message)

After getting some complaints from users that could not find the promsed 
works, I have monitored those that bounce, and I not found a single 
instance where this number was right. In this particular case, it should 
107.

I could not find a systematic error. Sometimes, it is too high, sometimes 
too low. But it is never lower than the number of items directly suggested 
in the message.

I have also added this to my RAS wish list at 
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/personal/raswish.html. Note that I have been 
maintaining this list for years, yet not a single item has been dealt 
with. I find this very sad, and frustrating, as these are all suggestions 
coming from the actual use of the product, i.e., consumer tested. I have 
even added priorities to the items so that one can figure out what is more 
urgent.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

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