Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!finsun!harper From: harper@finsun.csc.fi (Robert Harper) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: What/who is bionet Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 90 05:34:59 GMT References: <9009190312.AA08209@lash.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: usenet@nic.funet.fi Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET Lines: 25 In <9009190312.AA08209@lash.utcs.utoronto.ca> clark@mshri.utoronto.ca writes: > Perhaps Dave Kristofferson could modify the newsgroup so that the >appropriate return address is included? One further point. The return >address of the poster is often not decipherable by a network novice, so why >not include it after you signature to make it easier? The set up at BIONET is that when anyone replies to a posting it goes to the original poster rather than the list. I suppose this is a throw back to the old days of BIONET, where you had to protect a scientist from making a fool of himself in public. On the BIOSCI lists at IRLEARN the default is REPLY to LIST... so if any one on BITNET/EARN reads a message in their mailbox and does a REPLY to it then it will automatically be distributed to all the subscribers. I suspect however that many people in North America read the BIOSCI BBOARDS as NEWSGROUPS on some USENET newsreader. In which case a REPLY sends the reply back to the original poster. If people would use the FOLLOWUP command then their reply would go back to the NEWSGROUP, and a POST would allow them to enter a NEW entry. KEYWORDS: LISTSERV/LISTS, USENET/NEWSGROUPS, BIOSCI/BBOARDS Rob "never mind the quality feel the width" Harper