Thanks for the hint. I was searching from 2005 to now, which I
thought was reasonable. I'll try a smaller date range.

On May 16, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Sam Walters wrote:

> If you search backwards only about 6 months at a time and focus on
> words
> in the subject line not the body of the message you will rarely get
> the
> time out response.
>
> On the other hand if you ask for the server to search the entire
> text of
> every message for several years or more, it obviously is going to
> time out.
>
> I use the archives frequently and rarely get a time out message
> anymore.
>
> Sam
>
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