Yeah, I have the same problem. There are lots of ready-made search solutions out there, and I hope the list admins eventually adopt one of them. In the meantime, I do my searches "off-line". I downloaded all the archives to my computer and then installed WinGrep (http://www.wingrep.com/). As the name suggests, it allows you to use regular expressions. Furthermore, it has a nice graphical interface that shows you not only the file hits, but also a few words of context surrounding the matched phrase. A must-have for Windows users. Of course Linux users are probably laughing at us, and I can't say I blame them. >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:23:21 -0500 >From: YUK FAI LEUNG <yfleung@mcb.harvard.edu> >Subject: [BioC] A suggestion on the Searchable mail archives > >Hi, > >It would be nice if the search results can put the articles from the >same thread together so that one can read the whole discussion of the >question. > > -- --Sincerely, Alex F. Bokov Department of Physiology UTHSCSA ------------------------------------------------------------ "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis