Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!genbank!dmb.csiro.au!REISNER
From: REISNER@dmb.csiro.au
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: GenBank Distribution media
Message-ID: <8912130846.11173@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 13 Dec 89 09:40:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@genbank.BIO.NET
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We've been using 8mm catridges (2.3 Gbytes) for 18 months with good results.
I understand that GenBank uses the medium for its own backups.

	Are there enough GenBank subscribers to make it worthwhile for 
GenBank to distribute the database on that medium?

Alex Reisner