Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!bcm!bionet!ALANINE.PHRI.NYU.EDU!roy From: roy@ALANINE.PHRI.NYU.EDU (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: A question for FTP users Message-ID: <9101190214.AA17249@alanine.phri.nyu.edu> Date: 19 Jan 91 02:14:47 GMT References: Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 13 Dave Kristofferson says: > We have had a request to keep both the current GenBank release AND the > previous GenBank release in the FTP directory as standard policy. To be honest, I'm hard pressed to find a reason why anybody would want to see release N-1 of GenBank. I certainly don't see a reason to use valuable public disk space for this purpose. What could possibly be in an older release that's not also in the current one? -- 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!"