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[Huw Lynes]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:16 +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
> 
> 1. searchability - Having the actual messages available to you rather than 
> a web interface opens up much more of a variety of searching methods using 
> software of your choosing rather than simply a keyword search on the 
> forum.

A publicly accessible list archive solves this one. Why bother with your
own search capabilities when you can get google to index it for you?
In passing mariachi is a really good list archiver. Does proper
threading etc and is fast. 



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