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

[Chris Fields]

Andy, Ewan,

Yes, that's what I meant; I do not think a set of defaults is a good idea.  The other advantage to registering them is the list would get immediate updates from NCBI when changes occur (instead of finding out about them second-hand from other subscribers).  The list is very low traffic.  From their online docs:

'In addition, developers may request that the value of email be added to the E-utility mailing list that provides announcements of software updates, known bugs and other policy changes affecting the E-utilities.'

chris

On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:50 AM, Andy Jenkinson wrote:

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