[Bioperl-l] [Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] NCBI RevisedE-utility Usage Policy

[Smithies, Russell]

The email thing is mainly to help NCBI contact developers who may be abusing or having trouble with their services.
I've had an email from Scott McGinnis at NCBI before after he noticed one of my scripts could be improved. Generally, I've found their developers to be useful - it's just some of their helpdesk people who could use a lesson in being helpful.

After all, it's not like they're Google or Microsoft and just collecting addresses so they can spam you later ;-)

--Russell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:bioperl-l-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Mark A. Jensen
> Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 5:38 a.m.
> To: Hilmar Lapp; Peter
> Cc: bioruby at lists.open-bio.org; biojava-dev at lists.open-bio.org; Biopython-
> Dev Mailing List; bioperl-l list; open-bio-l at lists.open-bio.org; Chris
> Fields
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] [Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] NCBI
> RevisedE-utility Usage Policy
> 
> I think this is a great idea--- MAJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp at drycafe.net>
> To: "Peter" <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] [Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] NCBI
> RevisedE-utility Usage Policy
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> 
> >
> > On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Peter wrote:
> >
> >> Please give the NCBI an email - you can CC me too if you like.
> >
> >
> > Can't this be the developers' mailing list (or lists, the appropriate
> one for
> > each toolkit)? We can even whitelist all NCBI sender addresses  so they
> can
> > easily email us if there are issues.
> >
> > -hilmar
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