Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Comments on genbank distribution via Usenet Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 23:58:04 GMT References: <43.26000790@bio.embnet.se> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 17 Mats, We'll consider implementing your suggestion. The software is actually being written by Ross Smith and Roy Smith in New York in colloboration with GenBank. In terms of retrieving missing entries, however, the checks would have to be run pretty regularly (read every day or two) since we do not plan to keep a GenBank USENET archive on-line for a lengthy period of time in addition to our FTP archives *and* our on-line databases. After a while all of these different forms of distribution will just start consuming too much disk space. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net