> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:54:41 -0400
> From: Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>
> So going with something like [my line-noise proposal] gives us a
> much cleaner mapping to AA, and means we don't need separate word
> and string indexes.

Just to clarify (before Ralph does :-) -- servers may, of course, need
both kinds of indexes in order to _implement_ this stuff.  But we are
now allowing them to keep their dirty laundry out of view.

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