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To members of a user group, messages and documents registered in the user group are presented, while, to other users than the members of the user group, documents preset as available also to other users than the members of the user group are presented, and as a registration destination of the messag

To members of a user group, messages and documents registered in the user group are presented, while, to other users than the members of the user group, documents preset as available also to other users than the members of the user group are presented, and as a registration destination of the messages, a user group where the contents of the message, or the message and messages and documents that are most similar to the contents of the documents corresponded thereto is searched and presented at request from users.

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1. A document management method for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the met

1. A document management method for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the method comprising:generating a community in which an access authority is controlled;generating a plurality of message trees in the community, each of which accepts a message from users using the terminal devices, the message being in reply to the other message in the message tree;editing a plurality of documents each of which is associated with one of the message trees;generating additive message subjected to a change within one of the documents, the additive message being written into the corresponding message tree by one of the users who made the change;generating a bidirectional reference between the additive message and the corresponding document; andsearching for one of the documents as an instructive knowledge for at least one of the users in the community, wherein the corresponding massage tree is referred to by said one of users using the found document. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:making one of the documents open to the public by controlling the access authority in the community; andaccepting a message from unauthorized user regarding the document that is made open to public; andwriting the message into the corresponding message tree. 3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:making the message accepted from the unauthorized user open to the user within the corresponding message tree in the community while keeping other messages secret to the user. 4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:measuring the users contribution in the community; andgiving the users authority commensurate with the measured contribution in the community. 5. A document management method for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the method comprising:generating a plurality of communities in each of which an access authority is controlled;generating a plurality of message trees in each of the communities, each of the message trees accepting a message from users using the terminal devices, the message being in reply to the other message in the message tree;editing a plurality of documents each of which is associated with one of the message trees;generating additive message subjected to a change within one of the documents, the additive message being written into the corresponding message tree by one of the users who made the change;generating a bidirectional reference between the additive message and the corresponding document; andsearching for one of the communities which includes documents as an instructive knowledge for the users. 6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:accepting a message whose destination in the communities is undecided; andgenerating guidance information based on a content of the accepted message; anddisplaying the guidance information for guiding the user. 7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:calculating similarities of communities; andlisting the communities in the order of the similarities. 8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:making one of the documents open to the public by controlling the access authority in one of the community; andaccepting a message from unauthorized user regarding the document that is made open to public; andwriting the message into the corresponding message tree. 9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:making the message accepted from the unauthorized user open to the user within the corresponding message tree in the corresponding community while keeping other messages sec ret to the user. 10. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when the contents of a message registered in the specified community by a user of a specific community among the plural communities and documents corresponded to the registered message are similar to the contents of messages and documents registered in other communities, the existence of the other communities is informed to the user of the specific community. 11. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when the contents of a message registered in the specified community by a user of a specific community among the plural communities and documents corresponded to the registered message are similar to the contents of messages and documents registered in other communities, the existence of the user of the specific community is informed to at least one member of the other communities. 12. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when the contents of messages and documents registered in a specified community among the plural communities are similar to documents registered in other communities, the existence of the documents registered in the other communities is informed to each member of the specified community. 13. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when the contents of messages and documents registered in a specified community among the plural communities are similar to documents registered in other communities, the existence of the other communities is informed to each member of the specified community. 14. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when to search for documents in response to a search request from a user with at least one of a character string and the message and the designated as a search key word, if there is not any document that can be presented as an answer to the search request, though there exist messages and documents similar to the search key word in a certain community among the plural communities, a notice is made to at least one of the members of the specific community to make it possible to present documents similar to the search key word to members of other communities. 15. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:measuring the users contribution in the communities; andgiving the users authority commensurate with the measured contribution in the communities. 16. A document management apparatus for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the apparatus comprising:a first generating device configured to generate a community in which an access authority is controlled;a second generating device configured to generate a plurality of message trees in the community, each of which accepts a message from users using the terminal devices, the message being in reply to the other message in the message tree;an editor to edit a plurality of documents each of which is associated with one of the message trees;a third generating device configured to generate additive message subjected to a change within one of the documents, the additive message being written into the corresponding message tree by one of the users who made the change;a fourth generating device configured to generate a bidirectional reference between the additive message and the corresponding document; anda searching device configured to search for one of the documents as an instructive knowledge for at least one of the users in the community, wherein the corresponding massage tree is referred to by said one of users using the found document. 17. A document management apparatus for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the apparatus compris ing:a first generating device configured to generate a plurality of communities in each of which an access authority is controlled;a second generating device configured to generate a plurality of message trees in each of the communities, each of the message trees accepting a message from users using the terminal devices, the message being in reply to the other message in the message tree;an editor to edit a plurality of documents each of which is associated with one of the message trees;a third generating device configured to generate additive message subjected to a change within one of the documents, the additive message being written into the corresponding message tree by one of the users who made the change;a fourth generating device configured to generate a bidirectional reference between the additive message and the corresponding document; anda searching device configured to search for one of the communities which includes documents as an instructive knowledge for the users.