[Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] NCBI Revised E-utility Usage Policy

[Andy Jenkinson]

I think Chris meant to register them with NCBI rather than use them as default values. Purely to prevent application developers registering their applications as "BioPerl". I think we all agree that default values would not be helpful!

On 25 Mar 2010, at 11:07, Ewan Birney wrote:

> 
> Oddly, I don't think you want to be registering BioPerl as a client
> with an email. Rather the Bioperl libraries should prevent a client
> programmer from using the functions without an email and program type
> entered. This forces the decision onto the client programmer.
> 
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