Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Subject: Re: Direct Mail Responses Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 22:49:05 GMT References: <9008021713.AA04687@genbank.bio.net> <1513@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 26 Dan Davison already replied to this on bionet.general. USENET news software is not really a part of the UNIX operating system per se, but should be considered an application that runs under UNIX. Note that there is a hypercard stack available from SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU that allows one to use a networked Macintosh to read news. Progress is being made in the user-friendliness arena. We don't have your problem with our news software on GOS. I think you just "lucked out" with the version that your systems manager put up. I intend sometime in the next few days to post a summary of my BIO-MATRIX meeting talk on electronic communications for biologists to bionet.molbio.bio-matrix which includes details on the above, but just haaven't had time to put it together yet. What I find a bit amusing about all of this is the fact that so far the indications are that the Genome Project wishes to invest minimal effort in this arena. This is probably just one example of many pitfalls that could be avoided if biological networking was given a higher level of priority. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net