shikari

alright well the magnet idea sounds good, can you point me to some resources on how to get started with lua plugins? i haven't used lua before but i'm keen to give it a go.

I use a LAN DC hub at college, and a friend started working on a project where he can pull down everyone's file lists, check for changes, and produce a custom file list that contains all new files added to the network in the past 7 days. We can then go to grab it from his website and open it in DC, giving us a list of all of the new content. However, this is a bit tedious so I was thinking about other solutions to make the process easier. I've set up a new account 'NewStuff' and I want to run it on my server, basically just hosting the file list with all of the new content. That way, all anyone needs to do is get filelist from this dummy account and they'll have all of this weeks new content, without ever having to leave DC. However, I'm finding it difficult to find a way of sharing the filelist without actually having the files. I realise this borders on share faking which puts me on shaky ground, but I am actually trying to use it for good instead of evil! If you can tell me any method of getting this to work i'd be incredibly grateful, be it using ApexDC or something completely different. Cheers!

so i take it the hosting a custom file list option is off the table?

unfortunately the hub is run by the college network admin who sort of take a "if we're not looking it doesn't happen" approach, so the hub runs but we can't change anything to do with it. Unless this is something I could do from user point of view? looking forward to some links!