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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Comments on genbank distribution via Usenet
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Date: 15 Mar 90 23:21:57 GMT
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Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se (Mats Sundvall) writes:
> OK, the updates are great. But I propose you add an extra header to that
> will contain a sequence number on your postings [...] Then if our site
> miss a posting we could request it from genbank with the NNTP SENDME
> protocol.

	We've been discussing doing something like that (actually it was
Ross's idea, to give credit where due), but we're not quite sure what's the
best way to approach the problem.  Just putting a sequence number on each
posting will let people know they missed a posting, but won't directly let
them get it using NNTP/SENDME since you need a message-id for that.  But
that's a detail; some other form of retrieval could be worked out that only
requires sequence numbers, I suppose.
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