🚀 go-pugleaf

I have received 45 responses in the first two hours since my survey
posting, the furthest away coming from Switzerland if I remember
correctly (my hat is off to those grinding away in the middle of the
night there).  Please keep the "cards and letters coming in" because I
hope that we get at least 30 times this many replies in the next
few days.

Two items have come up which I need to clarify:

1) There is no need to include anything in your mail message.  Just
send anything (even a blank message) to survey@genbank.bio.net.  The
simplest thing for me to do is to count mail headers in the file in my
directory to which the response is directed to (although I am quickly
reading all responses .... please accept my apologies for not
replying!!).  I would prefer not to get mail saying that "there are 50
people at our site that read the newsgroups" but would much rather
have these statements validated by receiving a response from as many
of these people as possible.

2) I just received a response from the U.K. which questioned whether many
sites there (which receive the newsgroups via the SERC BIOSCI node in
Daresbury) had an easy way to respond to the survey@genbank.bio.net
address.  One method which was suggested was the following format:

CBS%EARN-RELAY::NET.BIO.GENBANK::SURVEY

(yuck!) for some U.K. users.  I'd like to point out, however, that
this is one of the ways in which BIOSCI **can** circumvent these
problems through the use of its nodes on the various networks, and
thereby make life easier for us all.  Although we have not had a vote
for a new newsgroup for a while (hence my mental lapse 8-)! the
following addresses exist at the BIOSCI nodes and can be used to
forward mail to me:

Address					Location	Network
-------					--------	-------
biovote@irlearn.ucd.ie			Ireland		EARN/BITNET
biovote@uk.ac.daresbury			U.K.		JANET
biovote@bmc.uu.se			Sweden		Internet
biovote@genbank.bio.net			U.S.A. 		Internet/BITNET

Thus, either survey@genbank.bio.net or any of the above addresses can
be used to register your presence on the BIOSCI readership list.  By
selecting your most "local" node, you can avoid the problem mentioned
above if it affects your site.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				GenBank On-line Service Manager

				kristoff@genbank.bio.net


P.S. - Note that I was also kind enough not to hit every BIOSCI
newsgroup with the same message!  This survey only covers the
readership on the BIONEWS/bionet.general group which is the most
active one.