Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!iuvax!bionet!PRESTO.IG.COM!kristoff From: kristoff@PRESTO.IG.COM (Dave Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: BioBit No 13... er No 12a (THE BIG PICTURE) Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 21:18:54 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.BIO.NET Reply-To: bionews@GENBANK.BIO.NET Lines: 20 Hi Mike, er Rob, and the rest of you out there! For those who desire to send in comments and are not on BITNET, be sure to add a ".bitnet" to the HARPER@FINFUN address, i.e., HARPER@FINFUN.BITNET. We are always interested in getting feedback from BIOSCI users. There are several ways that we can improve BIOSCI as Rob hints at in his article, but we are currently operating within the confines of bridging a variety of computer systems and networks. This requires us to take a "lowest common denominator" approach. However, as Rob will explain in upcoming issues of BIOBIT, there are better ways of doing things and the software to implement an improved system is already available in the public domain for both VAX/VMS and UNIX systems. The issue of improving BIOSCI is not a technical one, but instead a matter of politics, e.g, between readers and their computer systems managers. Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager