Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> Why have an archive at all?
>
> I've had no luck with it, and I hear the same from others.

You can try searching with Google -- but as many have pointed out, for
some reason it does not find everything.

The archive search CAN be very slow, but one thing I've found that can
REALLY speed it up is to limit it by date.  For example I wanted to find
a post I vaguely recalled as happening sometime in the first part of the
year, and by adding those date constraints I would get search results in
just a few seconds.

Allan

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1991 Vanagon GL