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Re: Avoiding multiple copies of news messages

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From: james.mumper
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 05:25
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In article <3235@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
>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

What about users who wish to save the file in order to edit it and re-send it
as a response?  How will they be able to accomplish this?  It makes sense to
do what you are proposing disk-space wise but it doesn't allow the user to make
any changes to the file.


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From: jimm@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (james.mumper)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Avoiding multiple copies of news messages
Summary: What about editing?
Message-ID: <1822@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 05:25:44 GMT
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