A freind of mine put searching into his mailmain archives. see: http://infothecary.org/jordan/mailman.html If you click on the link to lbo-talk there you can see how it works. It looks as if it would only search one year at a time; this is a mistake, just play with it and see. I'd sort of like to get this kind of functionality into mailman, but i never have the time to get around to it. Laura