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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Not that I don't value the INDEX as a great QA tool, but I wonder why 
> lots of people need to build their own INDEX.

Back before we had the daily builds and the 'make fetchindex' target,
it was about the only way to keep that file up-to-date.  Now it isn't,
but probably most people don't know that yet.

mcl