So, I found a neat neat little tool from http://www.personalgroupware.com/ called pg offline. It downloads all of the messages in any yahoo group you are subscribed to and dumps it into an access database .mdb file. The program has some pretty decent search tools as well as having a complete interface with your email client and allows posting of messages as well. For what it does, $19 is a steal and now I can search all 62000 messages for any term within seconds. Now that that's out of the way, Is there anyone out there who wants to host a 260 meg access database? that way, if anyone else on the list wants to pick up this software, they dont have to spend the hours upon hours downloading all of the messages and risk yahoo locking your account for an hour (an unfortunate side effect of mirroring an entire group for the first time) As a bonus, since the messages are in a standard database, you could theoretically write your own queries against it or even import it into an outlook personal folder which I'm working on now. email me if you have hosting and I can ftp the database somewhere. To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/