kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (09/26/90)
I posted a reply to bionet.human-genome-project using the Usenet rn utility and got the following back. Is this sort of thing normal for Bionet news groups? I fairly routinely post to other newsgroups without any of these undelivered mail messages coming back. . . ( copy of his bounced posting from an address in the United Kingdom) . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other USENET newsgroups are not set up with parallel mailing lists in various parts of the world, and this is what occasionally causes receipt of bounced mail by people posting to the newsgroup. 99% of the time it means that only one individual out of hundreds did not get your posting. I report such problems to other BIOSCI nodes as they occur, so feel free to send these to biosci@genbank.bio.net (although in most cases, as in this one, I have usually already encountered and reported the problem myself). It is our plan longer term to have all sites participating in BIOSCI move to USENET software but this will take some time to occur given that this is not the most pressing item at the top of most biologists' agenda. We have set up mechanisms at GenBank to trap bounced mail but we can not do the same for the other BIOSCI nodes. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net