kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (04/18/91)
Dear Arabidopsis newsgroup users: Some of you out there (perhaps many) may be unfortunate enough to have to use VAX VMS mail systems. Unfortunately the mail systems in use on these architectures are often based on proprietary standards which do not always mesh well with the open Internet standards used by BIOSCI. Why do I bother you with this??? Those of you in the above position will unfortunately see ARABIDOPSIS postings from genbank.bio.net as coming from an address called BIOSCI-REQUEST, and if you try to reply to that message, your reply will be automatically addressed to BIOSCI-REQUEST@genbank.bio.net. The BIOSCI-REQUEST address is actually a mechanism used by us to divert bounced mail from going back to the poster of the message or to the newsgroup. Unfortunately your system might be misreading this as the address from which the message originates. If you encounter this problem, just remember to include one of the following addresses on your message if you wish to send your reply back to the newsgroup for everyone to read. If you only want to send your reply to the person who posted the original query, look at the mail header to find that person's address. Address Location Network ------- -------- ------- arab-gen@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET arab-gen@uk.ac.daresbury U.K. JANET arab-gen@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet arab-gen@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET It is unfortunate that all computer systems do not follow the same conventions for electronic mail, but I anticipate that this problem will slowly go away with time. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net