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Re: Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 04:03:46 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Oh, one other thing...planning ahead:
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> Another potential application of article bit-flags is read/unread lists on a
> person-by-person basis via the web interface. I know this is something that
> people have been asking for for a long time. When updating a flag, it would
> be as simple as a single disk read/write to change a single bit. And when
> mass-article filtering, it would simply load into memory as a memory-mapped
> file and would be extremely efficient in terms of both space and speed. It
> would even be easy to make customized message folders and move messages
> between them, delete messages, mark unread, etc.
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> Would you like to be able to say, "search for 'blah blah blah' within my
> 'cool models' folder"?
Ooh ooh ooh... One thing I really really want is to be able to put
messages into folders (if anyone knows of a decent newsreader which
allows such - please let me know - it would be preferable that it do so
without requiring me to store the message).
Frank
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