Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se (Mats Sundvall) (03/16/90)
OK, the updates are great. But I propose you add an extra header to that will contain a sequence number on your postings. This header can then be used by some software to ensure that you have recieved all postings and have a complete database. As I write this it occurs to me that the subject line could contain~ this info in a standardized format. Then if our site miss a posting we could request it from genbank with the NNTP SENDME protocol. This could be done automatically. A program checks for missing postings. If a posting is missing after some amount of time (maybe some days) the program connects to genbank and request retransmission. Mats Sundvall BMC Uppsala University Sweden
roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (03/16/90)
Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se (Mats Sundvall) writes: > OK, the updates are great. But I propose you add an extra header to that > will contain a sequence number on your postings [...] Then if our site > miss a posting we could request it from genbank with the NNTP SENDME > protocol. We've been discussing doing something like that (actually it was Ross's idea, to give credit where due), but we're not quite sure what's the best way to approach the problem. Just putting a sequence number on each posting will let people know they missed a posting, but won't directly let them get it using NNTP/SENDME since you need a message-id for that. But that's a detail; some other form of retrieval could be worked out that only requires sequence numbers, I suppose. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"
kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) (03/16/90)
Mats, We'll consider implementing your suggestion. The software is actually being written by Ross Smith and Roy Smith in New York in colloboration with GenBank. In terms of retrieving missing entries, however, the checks would have to be run pretty regularly (read every day or two) since we do not plan to keep a GenBank USENET archive on-line for a lengthy period of time in addition to our FTP archives *and* our on-line databases. After a while all of these different forms of distribution will just start consuming too much disk space. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net