Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bionet!lhc!ncifcrf!fcs260c2!toms From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: Source of duplicate messages found Summary: get rid of email news dispersal Message-ID: <2138@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 30 Apr 91 14:11:49 GMT References: Sender: news@ncifcrf.gov Organization: NCI Supercomputer Facility, Frederick, MD Lines: 28 In article kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) writes: >This illustrates **yet >again** (sigh) why all of you should dump e-mail as a news source as >soon as possible and get your systems manager to install a USENET news >system. Mail will continue to be vulnerable to loops if people do not >know how to configure their systems correctly. I can send information >about this to whoever is interested. > Dave Kristofferson > GenBank Manager > kristoff@genbank.bio.net These bionet groups are the only news groups that regularly have these problems. If there is no technical reason that prevents people from switching to a pure usenet system, then how about making a reasonable deadline for the switch? After a certain date news would no longer be sent by mail, perhaps with the exception of a few 'hardship' cases. Because of these problems, we all have to read a lot of junk all the time and it's wasting people's time, especially yours Dave! If you can't set a deadline because of a bionet charter then change the charter. If you set a deadline, everybody will suddenly be interested... :-). Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov