>and perhaps, for distributed indexing, we might have hooks to a local index
>file with a standardized format... so that an offsite index could get the
>local index in one fell swoop?
>
>Something like
> altavista-format: /path/indexfile.db
> or
>more generally,
>
> local index format:
> local index path:
>
>les
>nf.ca
>
>