crehta@tasu74.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani) (02/01/90)
I looking for a way to avoid the problem of having many users saving
multiple copies of news messages; my problem has to do mostly with
large documents distributed via local newsgroups, documents that many
people may like to save.
What comes to mind is a package that will maintain a common area in
which a single copy of any news article saved will reside; every user
will have a file containing pointers to the articles he "saved" (of
course many users may point to a single file), and every article will
have a list of users who "saved" it. A user should be able to "save"
an article (i.e. copy it to the common area if it is not there yet, add
a pointer to it to his/her file, and his/her userid to the article's
user list), list and view the articles he "saved", "delete" such
articles etc. . ("delete" will remove the file pointer from the user
pointer file, and the user's name from the article user list. If this
causes the user list to be empty, the article will be removed from the
disk).
Any ideas?
-- Ran
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
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