chend@ucs.orst.edu (Donald Chen - Microbiology) (08/01/90)
Are there sites where the bionet newsgroups are archived? I'm especially interested in bionet.software/methds-reagnts for the past few months. Thanks, Don
kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) (08/02/90)
> >Are there sites where the bionet newsgroups are archived? >I'm especially interested in bionet.software/methds-reagnts >for the past few months. > >Thanks, >Don Don, Rob Harper has answered on how to retrieve the messages from IRLEARN. We have copies of back messages here in our USENET news software, but there is no means of automatically retrieving them by e-mail. We are considering implementing this capability, but there is something that you can do locally since I believe your site does receive the newsgroups over USENET. The news software generally has a feature that deletes old messages after a certain date. Since the amount of disk space utilized by the bionet.* groups is small, you could simply ask your systems administrator in the future to set this so that messages in the bionet groups are not deleted. The expiration date can usually be set differently for different newsgroups. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net