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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: BIONET?
Message-ID: <3374@phri.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 15:03:53 GMT
References: <5421@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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zqli@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Zhenqin Li) writes:
> I would appreciate if anyone could share experience on how to [...]
> be put on the mailing list of BIONET without paying the $400 annual
> subscription fee. 

	There is a bionet top-level news distribution on usenet which is
gatewayed (bi-directionally, I think) from the various BIONET bboards.  To
get the bionet groups, all you have to do is find a news neighbor and ask
them to send them to you.  If you can't find a closer site, we would be
willing to set up a uucp link just to send you those groups.  The traffic
is pretty light (in fact, sometimes I wonder if anybody uses them at all).
There are a number of NNTP sites which get bionet as well.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"