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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: bionet.general
- Subject: Bionet vs BIOSCI
- Message-ID: <106372@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:23:55 GMT
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.727472931.kristoff@net.bio.net>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson)
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- In article <CMM.0.90.2.727472931.kristoff@net.bio.net>, kristoff@NET (Dave Kristofferson) writes:
- >> David changed most instances of the word "Bionet" in my FAQ to "BIOSCI".
- >> He and I have argued publicly over whether these are equivalent.
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- >This change was made simply because the name of the system *is* BIOSCI
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- Why is that? Is BIOSCI substantially more than network distribution of
- biological research requests and information? Your(?) paper in the Los
- Alamos COMPUTERS AND DNA collection mostly referred to bionet.
-
- If it's mostly mailing lists now gatewayed via network news, it makes
- sense to call it bionet, in analogy with usenet, decnet, happynet, etc.
- "BIOSCI" could be anything, and sounds like something pretentious for
- the sake of an unaware NSF committee.
-
- I'm not trying to revise any old arguments, I just wonder if I hate the
- name BIOSCI for a reason or not.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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