Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bionet!bio.embnet.se!mats
From: Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se (Mats Sundvall)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Comments on genbank distribution via Usenet
Message-ID: <43.26000790@bio.embnet.se>
Date: 15 Mar 90 20:22:24 GMT
Organization: Embnet node in Sweden, Biomedical Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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OK, the updates are great. But I propose you add an extra header to that
will contain a sequence number on your postings. This header can then
be used by some software to ensure that you have recieved all postings
and have a complete database.

As I write this it occurs to me that the subject line could contain~
this info in a standardized format. Then if our site miss a posting
we could request it from genbank with the NNTP SENDME protocol.

This could be done automatically. A program checks for missing postings.
If a posting is missing after some  amount of time (maybe some days) the
program connects to genbank and request retransmission.

	Mats Sundvall
	BMC
	Uppsala University
	Sweden