Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!agate!ucbvax!leicester.ac.uk!PJH From: PJH@leicester.ac.uk Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Updates of GenBank via USENET: comparison with V65.0. Message-ID: <9011092002.AA03101@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 9 Nov 90 10:08:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: P.J.Humble@leicester.ac.uk Organization: University of Leicester Computer Centre, U.K. Lines: 32 In article you write: >Ross, > > > >format (although this got delayed by the above). Because the USENET >distribution is basically an unfunded "spare time" activity, this had >to sit on the back burner. It is still not completely on the front >burner yet, but we should be able to do something within the next >month. > > Sincerely, > > Dave Kristofferson > GenBank Manager > > kristoff@genbank.bio.net Can I suggest something that might be a lot easier to implement than the list of files sent out. Just a simple sequence number somewhere in the mail header. If these numbers started sometime at 1 and just worked upwards you would know that you had missed News postings and which ones were missing. A lot of the comp...sources use this mechanism for tracing missing postings. Keep up the good work - even though it may be incomplete, what you are doing is incredibly useful to us all. Pete Humble, Internet: PJH%leicester.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk System Manager, Bitnet/EARN: PJH%leicester.ac.uk@UKACRL Computer Centre, JANET: PJH@UK.AC.LEICESTER Leicester University U.K. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com