[blast-announce] OLD_BLAST parameter to be discontinued. Alternative NCBI BLAST parsable formats are available

Not sure if anyone is using this as a means of getting their reports (I don't), but I'm posting this here just
in case.

-c

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> From: "Mcginnis, Scott (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" 
> Subject: [blast-announce] OLD_BLAST parameter to be discontinued. Alternative NCBI BLAST parsable
formats are available
> Date: July 18, 2012 9:17:05 AM CDT
> To: NLM/NCBI List blast-announce
> 
> Beginning Sept. 10, 2012, the BLAST service will ignore the OLD_BLAST parameter in posted URLs. We are
removing this old and little used option to prepare for upcoming enhancements to the BLAST service later
this year. Setting OLD_BLAST=true produces an older version of the BLAST HTML results that a few people
have used for automated processing (parsing) of results. NCBI BLAST supports a number of different and
more stable formats for parsing. These include XML, tabular reports and ASN.1. For more information,
please see BLAST Developer Information (http://1.usa.gov/O8AocI) and links on that page.
>