djg at pdp8.net wrote: Jay will doubtless be along, but I think (from hazy memory) the fundamental issues were that the default re-indexing process tries to re-index everything (rather than just adding 'new' content), the process often takes more hours than there are available in the day to run, and search queries return no results whilst the re-indexing is in progress. Someone - I'd have to check my own archives to find the relevant message - was archiving all list traffic online. Then there was once talk of re-implementing the search engine (I believe the current one is some default that comes with the mailing list software), but I suspect that the issue is that the people with the time/inclination to do that don't then have the resources to actually make the result 'live' (and Jay's understandably hampered by there only being one of him ;) cheers Jules