there are regular complaints about down archives.  They are more/less ok.
Try searching them by email.  I just did this on the capacitor fix.  Below
is my message.  It just returned  the first 100 of 174 matches

-----Original Message-----
From:   Pollard, Matthew
Sent:   Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:45 PM
To:     'listserv@gerry.vanagon.com'
Subject:        search

search capacitor in vanagon

what was returned:
> search capacitor in vanagon
-> 174 matches (only the first 100 will be shown).

Item #   Date   Time  Recs   Subject
------   ----   ----  ----   -------
001057 94/07/11 01:16   19   Re: delta six industries
002936 94/09/12 09:02   28   Bouncy gas gauge in '71 Van??
004304 94/10/12 11:57   37   Re: Cold Start
005697 94/11/17 10:05   35   Re: stove=heater=safe?
008522 95/02/07 01:53   48   Re: Dying FI etc.
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