Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: changes to genbank updates Message-ID: <1990Aug16.172920.23998@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 16 Aug 90 17:29:20 GMT References: <1990Aug16.171211.19826@phri.nyu.edu> <1990Aug16.154352.8097@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 15 kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) writes: > The suggestion of putting the DEFINITION line on the Subject is a good > one which I will discuss with the staff. The "Keywords" feature in > USENET news might also be of some use in this regards. It's been a while since I've perused the appropriate RFCs, but my recollection is that it is legal to make up headers of your own, starting with an "X". It might be a good idea, for example, to have a news article header called "X-Definition:" which is just the DEFINITION line from the GenBank locus. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"