In <9109301503.AA00893 at genbank.bio.net> MACRIDES at WFEB2.BITNET (Foteos Macrides) writes:
>read NEWS, and do not know of one (i.e. a USENET node), I know of no official
>way of doing so. However, one suggestion was to try connecting to BBN.COM via
>ANONYMOUS FTP and look through the directory uumap/comp.mail.maps to find a
>USENET node near you to contact.
Well it just so happens that we have put UUCP-maps as a WAIS "source"
on nic.funet.fi The dirty work was done by Petri Ojala.
So from you favourite Sun workstation you can now do
waisearch -h nic.funet.fi -d UUCP-maps -p 210 bionet
and it will give you a score of 1000 on bionet.
sun4/csc/harper 38> waissearch -h nic.funet.fi -d UUCP-maps -p 210 bionet
Search Response:
NumberOfRecordsReturned: 24
1: Score: 1000, lines: 33 '#N bionet'
View document number [type 0 or q to quit]: 1
Headline: #N bionet
#N bionet
#S Solbourne 5/800; OS/MP 4.0C (SunOS 4.0.3)
#O GenBank Online Service
#C Eliot Lear, Michael C. Berch
#E usenet at genbank.bio.net
#T +1 415 962 7323
#P 700 East El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040
#L 37 23 10 N / 122 04 58 W
#U ig rutgers agate uwmcsd4 ames apple sdsu arisia alc
#U hayes.ims.alaska.edu ucselx.sdsu.edu
#R genbank.bio.net [134.172.1.160] on the internet
#W mcb at presto.ig.com (Michael C. Berch) ; Thu Dec 20 23:15:37 GMT 1990
#
#
# Home of the "bionet.*" Usenet distribution and
# gateway for the bionet/BIOSCI distribution between
# USENET, Internet mailing lists, and European discussions.
#
# In addition to the #U sites above, we feed bionet.* to the following
# sites:
#
# ig uunet apple asylum uwmcsd1 nlm-mcs agate ucbvax arizona rutgers
# bglsun1 ames ncsuvx iuvax uni2 ames bloom-beacon transposon.lanl.gov
# snorkelwacker bmc1.bmc.uu.se news.cs.indiana.edu llustig nigsun
# stjude.org sun.udel.edu umigw.miami.edu gazette.bcm.tmc.edu
# jupiter.cs.wayne.edu
#
#bionet .bio.net
#bionet = genbank.bio.net
# Direct uucp connections:
#bionet ig(LOCAL), orc(DEMAND), asylum(HOURLY), bglsun1(DEMAND),
oracle(HOURLY), nigsun(DEMAND), westsci(DEMAND),
mrspoc(HOURLY), alc(HOURLY)
Rob "get yourself a feed" Harper
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Rob Harper / E-mail: Harper at convex.csc.fi
Finnish State Computer Centre / Molbio/software: Harper at nic.funet.fi
P.O. Box 40, SF-02101 Espoo / Telephone: +358 0 457 2076
Finland / Fax: +358 0 457 2302
