Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!iuvax!genbank!bio.embnet.se!mats
From: Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re: Distributing GenBank over the Internet
Message-ID: <30.25862b68@bio.embnet.se>
Date: 13 Dec 89 09:58:47 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.213027.8591@phri.nyu.edu> <1364@uvm-gen.UUCP> <Dec.11.22.42.24.1989.24946@presto.IG.COM>
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In article <Dec.11.22.42.24.1989.24946@presto.IG.COM>, benton@presto.IG.COM (David Benton) writes:
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> 
>> The suggestion to distribute information per demand makes more sense
>> interms of lowering the network traffic, but then how would the
>> individual user know her copy of a database were "up to date"?  The
>> "news" model would almost be essential to this point.
> 
Distributing per demand does not nessecarily lower the network traffic.
A distribution scheeme with redistribution like NNTP will spread the database
around the world without multiple distributions through the same link as is the
case with FTP.
  
	Mats Sundvall,
	University of Uppsala
	Sweden