Sad to say, the egroups search engine sucks.. It's slow, and there is no documented query language. The result lists are short, and you can only sort each display- not the entire query results. The search engine for the old archives is much better (www.dmcnews.com), but I found this out AFTER I deleted my own DML archives... I wonder if egroups would allow the entire archive to be downloaded somehow.. Maybe a better search engine can be used. Oh well, Marc Deloreanernst@xxxx wrote: ><SNIP> > fellow owners, not the brainless search engine. Please help me out here: not > only the tune up procedure, but any more selective way of searching the > archives.