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From: KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re: GenBank release: BioNet account
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Date: 26 Feb 88 01:21:52 GMT
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From: David Kristofferson <Kristofferson@BIONET-20.ARPA>


Brian,

	You definitely sound like you have your hands full!  I think
that the best course for us to take would be for you to have one of
the faculty members at Vermont contact me.  BIONET is not currently
testing GenBank data submission software (although we do have our own
XGENPUB data submission program on-line) and class II accounts are
reserved for software developers, bulletin board leaders, etc.

We have often been asked for free accounts to try out BIONET.
Unfortunately these accounts are not "free" to us since we have to pay
the Telenet and Compuserve phone bills that people run up when using
the system.  The cost of BIONET ($400 per year) covers these (and only
these!) charges.  The rest of the resource is supported by the
Division of Research Resources at the NIH.  When I recall that I used
to spend well over $400 for a 5 gram bottle of GTP that would last a
couple of months and realize that the $400 BIONET fee gives unlimited
access to all the programs, recent versions of the databases,
unlimited worldwide electronic mail and bulletin board services, etc.,
AND covers the telephone connect time, it is apparent that BIONET is
one of the most amazing offers available to scientists today.  If we
were to hand out free "trial" accounts it would become an accounting
nightmare for us and quickly bankrupt our non-profit resource.  I
believe that if this is explained to your advisor(s), they will
quickly assent to providing you with an account.

				Sincerely,

				David Kristofferson, Ph.D.
				BIONET Resource Manager

				kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa

				415-962-7300
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