Re: Automatic Notification of New DB Entries

In article <33a5bq$k8v_at_news1.digex.net> ashore_at_access1.digex.net (Arnold Shore) writes:
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>Background: I'm assisting a friend whose organization is coming onto the
>Net. Key applications is a full-text database which we will available to
>'net and other users. (A Z39.50 implementation is certainly a natural
>here, and we're considering that.)
>
>Point at hand: We're considering supporting 'standing' search requests as
>a service to users. Such requests would be run against new/arriving
>documents as these enter the data base. Matches would result in
>automatically-generated e-mail to the interested party, with notification
>of title, author, keywords/subjects matched, etc.
>
>Problem: But running each standing query against each new record/document
>would be a real machine-eater, and we're looking for a better way to
>accomplish that.
>
>Possible solution: We've found a software product, LMDS, that will do this
>nicely with some moderate integration effort.
>
>Question: But there have to be others, and I'm interested in hearing from
>anyone working this field who might be familiar with the problem and other
>solutions.
>
>

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