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You're absolutely right that lots of folks don't bother to search the
archives, in part because they're _email_ based and, so, not as easy to use.
The easier it is to find the info, the more likely people will use it.
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If I may inform those who don't know....
anyone can search the archives (listmember or not) via the webpage search,
here's the link:
http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html on this page, click "search
the archives" and you will get another page for your input, that is what you
want to search for.  Since the server upgrade, this method of search is
quite fast listing the e-mail messages that pertain to your search criteria
by subject (important to get the subject line accurate) and then one can
click into any message for more info.  I find this method as efficient as
the e-mail search and can be done on any machine with www access and a
browser.

JB
'89 Wolfsburgs