lear@genbank.BIO.NET (02/16/90)
What follows is input for a checkgroups message for the BIOSCI/BIONET heirarchy. If you are running netnews 2.11, you should receive mail notification of a checkgroups message. To issue a checkgroups message on your system, follow the guidelines stated in Gene Spafford's monthly message on this subject. If you have any questions, or are having problems with your BIONET/BIOSCI feed, please contact me at the above address. Eliot Lear GenBank Systems --- BIONET groups follow --- bionet.agroforestry Discussion of Agroforestry. bionet.general General BIONET announcements. bionet.sci-resources Information about funding agencies, etc. bionet.jobs Scientific Job opportunities. bionet.journals.contents Contents of biology journal publications. bionet.molbio.ageing Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing. bionet.molbio.news Research news of interest to the community. bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Requests for information and lab reagents. bionet.molbio.genbank Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.embldatabank Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.pir Info about the PIR protein sequence database. bionet.molbio.bio-matrix Computer applications to biological databases. bionet.molbio.evolution How genes and proteins have evolved. bionet.molbio.gene-org How genes are organized on chromosomes. bionet.molbio.proteins Research on proteins and protein databases. bionet.molbio.swiss-prot Discussion on the SWISS-PROT Database. bionet.population-bio Technical discussions about population biology. bionet.software Information about software for biology. bionet.technology.conversion Use of techology to convert waste and biomass.
lear@genbank.BIO.NET (02/16/90)
What follows is input for a checkgroups message for the BIOSCI/BIONET heirarchy. If you are running netnews 2.11, you should receive mail notification of a checkgroups message. To issue a checkgroups message on your system, follow the guidelines stated in Gene Spafford's monthly message on this subject. If you have any questions, or are having problems with your BIONET/BIOSCI feed, please contact me at the above address. Eliot Lear GenBank Systems --- BIONET groups follow --- bionet.agroforestry Discussion of Agroforestry. bionet.general General BIONET announcements. bionet.sci-resources Information about funding agencies, etc. bionet.jobs Scientific Job opportunities. bionet.journals.contents Contents of biology journal publications. bionet.molbio.ageing Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing. bionet.molbio.news Research news of interest to the community. bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Requests for information and lab reagents. bionet.molbio.genbank Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.embldatabank Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.genome-program Discussion of Human Genome Project issues. bionet.molbio.pir Info about the PIR protein sequence database. bionet.molbio.bio-matrix Computer applications to biological databases. bionet.molbio.evolution How genes and proteins have evolved. bionet.molbio.gene-org How genes are organized on chromosomes. bionet.molbio.proteins Research on proteins and protein databases. bionet.molbio.swiss-prot Discussion on the SWISS-PROT Database. bionet.population-bio Technical discussions about population biology. bionet.software Information about software for biology. bionet.technology.conversion Use of techology to convert waste and biomass.
lear@genbank.BIO.NET (03/01/90)
What follows is input for a checkgroups message for the BIOSCI/BIONET heirarchy. If you are running netnews 2.11, you should receive mail notification of a checkgroups message. To issue a checkgroups message on your system, follow the guidelines stated in Gene Spafford's monthly message on this subject. If you have any questions, or are having problems with your BIONET/BIOSCI feed, please contact me at the above address. Eliot Lear GenBank Systems --- BIONET groups follow --- bionet.agroforestry Discussion of Agroforestry. bionet.general General BIONET announcements. bionet.jobs Scientific Job opportunities. bionet.journals.contents Contents of biology journal publications. bionet.molbio.ageing Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing. bionet.molbio.bio-matrix Computer applications to biological databases. bionet.molbio.embldatabank Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.evolution How genes and proteins have evolved. bionet.molbio.genbank Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.genbank.updates Hot off the presses... bionet.molbio.gene-org How genes are organized on chromosomes. bionet.molbio.genome-program Discussion of Human Genome Project issues. bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Requests for information and lab reagents. bionet.molbio.news Research news of interest to the community. bionet.molbio.pir Info about the PIR protein sequence database. bionet.molbio.proteins Research on proteins and protein databases. bionet.molbio.swiss-prot Discussion on the SWISS-PROT Database. bionet.population-bio Technical discussions about population biology. bionet.sci-resources Information about funding agencies, etc. bionet.software Information about software for biology. bionet.technology.conversion Use of techology to convert waste and biomass. bionet.users.addresses Who's who in Biology
tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) (03/02/90)
Once again, I repeat my question: Am I the only one having problems with Eliot Lear's checkgroups messages ?? Regularly, when they come, I receive as news admin a mail telling me how corrupt my active file is (basically, no comp.* etc. group is valid) and advising me to rmgroup all these groups. Of course, I don't obey, but the problem is that my /usr/lib/news/newsgroups is getting completely wrong this way. I have to wait for the next monthly general checkgroups (sent from cwi here in Europe) to get a valid newsgroups file again. This is a bit disturbing as I provide access to this newsgroups file to users here, through a help interface, for knowing what's in the different newsgroups. Does the problem come from Eliot Lear's checkgroup message or from my version of Bnews 2.11 (some beta version, I admit) ? And yes, honest, update of our Bnews software is on my TODO list. -- Karl Tombre - INRIA Lorraine / CRIN EMAIL : tombre@loria.crin.fr - POST : BP 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France
scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) (03/03/90)
tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes: >Once again, I repeat my question: Am I the only one having problems >with Eliot Lear's checkgroups messages ?? >Regularly, when they come, I receive as news admin a mail telling me >how corrupt my active file is (basically, no comp.* etc. group is >valid) and advising me to rmgroup all these groups. . . . >And yes, honest, update of our Bnews software is on my TODO list. We (OK, I) recently subjected the Michigan distribution to the same sort of checkgrouping. The results were fascinating. Some sites, including 2.11.14 and earlier, got boatloads of messages saying they had spurious groups -- all groups besides mi.*. Others got empty messages with the subject "invalid groups" or something similar. Up-to-date Bnews and Cnews sites got proper messages. So the problem is definately the news software levels. I plan to send the mi checkgroups message quarterly, and am looking for a way to include 'extra' text in it so I can let those behind- the-times sysadms know what's going on. -- Steve Simmons scs@iti.org Industrial Technology Institute "People tend to hit me." -- Mike Wayne
molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda) (03/04/90)
scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes: >>Once again, I repeat my question: Am I the only one having problems >>with Eliot Lear's checkgroups messages ?? >>Regularly, when they come, I receive as news admin a mail telling me >>how corrupt my active file is (basically, no comp.* etc. group is >>valid) and advising me to rmgroup all these groups. . . . >>And yes, honest, update of our Bnews software is on my TODO list. > [...] >Up-to-date Bnews and Cnews sites got proper messages. So the problem >is definately the news software levels. I'm not sure. I'm running the latest patchlevel of Cnews and each time I get one of those bionet.* checkgroup messages I get a message telling me to remove all my non-bionet groups. I asked Mr. Lear about it and he said my news software was not set up/working correctly. Is anyone running the current (jan 18, I believe) version of Cnews and not having these problems? Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Computer Science dept. molenda@cs.umn.edu || rutgers!umn-cs!molenda
molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda) (03/04/90)
molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda) writes: >>Up-to-date Bnews and Cnews sites got proper messages. So the problem >>is definately the news software levels. >I'm not sure. I'm running the latest patchlevel of Cnews and each >time I get one of those bionet.* checkgroup messages I get a message >telling me to remove all my non-bionet groups. I asked Mr. Lear about >it and he said my news software was not set up/working correctly. Is >anyone running the current (jan 18, I believe) version of Cnews and >not having these problems? Whoops! I take that all back. David Lawrence just pointed out to me that you only get messages for groups that aren't in $NEWSCTL/newsgroups. I have nothing in my newsgroups file due to the fact that I just switched over from Bnews and didn't copy that file over. Sorry about that. -jason Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Computer Science dept molenda@cs.umn.edu || rutgers!umn-cs!molenda
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/04/90)
In article <1990Mar3.211157.25723@cs.umn.edu> molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda) writes: >>>Up-to-date Bnews and Cnews sites got proper messages... > >>I'm not sure. I'm running the latest patchlevel of Cnews and each >>time I get one of those bionet.* checkgroup messages I get a message >>telling me to remove all my non-bionet groups... > >Whoops! I take that all back. David Lawrence just pointed out to me >that you only get messages for groups that aren't in $NEWSCTL/newsgroups. >I have nothing in my newsgroups file... In fairness, it should also be mentioned that C News's checkgroups is buggy and needs work. One of us will get to it eventually. -- MSDOS, abbrev: Maybe SomeDay | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology an Operating System. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu