Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: And in the End... Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 02:55:29 GMT References: <9102060044.AA21163@genbank.bio.net> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 18 You make many good points, and I reiterate, despite my "threats" that we have no intention of dropping e-mail any time soon. I am familiar with the types of problems that you are describing and realize how far down we are on the priority list. However we are investigating ways to reduce the number of problems that crop up. My experience is that for every public bitch about SUBSCRIBE messages there are other responses to me like yours saying that they are tolerable given the other benefits of the system. This is part of the reason that things have sailed along so far. However, if we can better organize the system, that will not only benefit the end users but it would also free up more of our time to go out and look for new uses for BIOSCI, e.g., beef up the journal TOCs, etc. Stay tuned ... I don't think that we have heard the last from Rob yet (he might at a minimum respond and say that we have 8-). Dave Kristofferson