Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: DNA and Protein Sequencing Workshop Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 17:53:53 GMT References: <9102131454.AA08122@genbank.bio.net> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 25 > Correction, all together 9 msg. on "DNA and protein sequencing workshop"; > DO loop of PCR is back. After seeing all of the messages yesterday, I alerted the poster to the problem that this produced for e-mail subscribers. As a general rule crossing posting on BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups is not a good idea, although posting *important* items to 2 or 3 newsgroups can be tolerated. The poster in Australia was a USENET user and did not realize that there are associated e-mail lists with the newsgroups which would result in some recipients receiving multiple copies from different newsgroups. On the bright side, I have found it interesting to note that the Australians who obviously have a geographical barrier to surmount seem to be far ahead of most of the rest of us in using USENET, although my understanding is that they are under a much tighter funding situation than the U.S. It seems to be extremely widespread there to the point that there is almost no need for e-mail subscriptions. If everyone was using USENET there would have been no cluttered mailboxes nor any of the other recent problems. We are continuing to work on a new organizational structure for BIOSCI and I hope to be able to report to you on this soon. Dave "broken record" Kristofferson