Thanks for the info on this issue.  I will follow your advice and split my
vanagon mailboxes into reasonable sizes and then search them all when needed.

William,
I used to use digest mode to get the list until a list member recommended
the concept of getting individual messages and filtering them into a
separate mailbox.  The advantage is that it is much easier to ignore topics
that are not of interest, and get all the messages together of a topic that
is interesting.  I often go several days before reading the mail that comes
into the vanagon list, other than scanning it for urgent issues.  So then
I'm reading along: Oh, here is someone with some propane tank issues.  I'm
working on my propane tank system, so I'm interested in that.  I click one
of the messages, click the subject column header, and boing, they are all
together for easy reading.  The archive searching works pretty well now
that Gerry is on the new box, but still is nowhere near as fast as
searching local media.  Folks also talk about taking the archived messages
on the road on a laptop for troubleshooting when not connected.

Edward

At 4/27/02 12:43 PM, you wrote:
>I'm curious. Why bother with personal mailboxes when this site has a great
>archives list? What am I missing?
>
>William