Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!snorkelwacker!bionet!GENBANK.BIO.NET!kristoff From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genome-program Subject: Re: bionet/biosci popularity Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 90 22:02:08 GMT Sender: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET Lines: 16 > BTW, what's the difference between the bionet groups and biosci? Is the > latter just your generic name for the union of the usenet, bboard, and > mailing list distributions? Any guess as to the relative sizes of those? > > The bionet.* groups were set up prior to our merger with the European sites to form BIOSCI. You can basically look at them as simply the USENET arm of BIOSCI. I haven't totaled up all of our local e-mail lists lately (these vary greatly in size depending upon the group) but probably will do so fairly soon since I'm going to give a talk about this stuff. Several new e-mail subscription requests come in here each day and I'm sure the situation is similar for our colleagues in Europe. Dave