> Isn't there a "friends and family" feature in Explain?

Not within a single record.
The 'Friends and Neighbours' feature was more that the Brief record was
just host/port/dbname/title/description, and there's space for harvesting
metadata, so when a database of the records gets built, you can include
records for systems other than your own.
Then in the zeerex attribute set, there's a 'search only databases on this
machine' flag.

Rob

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