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From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Image files for people
Message-ID: <13785@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 8 Mar 91 23:43:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.033928.796@shaman.com>
Organization: The Asylum, Belmont, CA
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jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>  I was cleaning up my /LocalLibrary/Images/People directory today (muddling
>around with passwd, making sure pictures matched addresses) and I thought:
>	"Wouldn't it be a great idea if we had a People database at
>	one of the archive servers?"

That's a great idea.  In addition, if you administer a network of NeXTs,
why not have your People database available via anon ftp at your site?
It would be nice, for example, to be able to update pictures of folks
from NeXT by ftping the People.tar file from next.com.  That way  I
wouldn't have to collect a huge centralized database from an archive
server when all I want are, say, folks from NeXT, IBM, and Sun.

'Course, to be even more efficient, I could just mass-mail a request for
a new picture to everyone in my People directory.  Once every couple of
months or so via cron should do it. :-)

Be seeing you...
Lang
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