URL respitrory

[Liss Svanberg <lisss ydab se>]

I have probably missed the discussion about the URL respitory proposal but 
anyway;

Nat Friedman<nat@nat.org> wrote in his proposal, among others:
> The idea is to store URLs like in a database:

Why store it like in a database?
Why not *in* a database?

> I would love to see something like this implemented as a CORBA
> object which could be accessed by all the applications that I use.
> I'd love it if my mailer would automatically recognize URLs that
> appear in the messages that I'm reading and add them to the repository,
> or look them up and tell me the last place I saw them. I would love to be
> able to query this repository with search strings, or by person, or by 
date.

Sounds like an ordinary, general database engine, accessed through a CORBA 
interface.
Never leave a system without one! :)
(Haven't Gnome got some kind of DB support?)

mvh (short for: "I just want to say that it has been really nice to talk to 
you, but I cannot find out anything more to say, so I'll stop right here.")
// Liss
liss@ydab.se