Re: Is there a problem with the mail archives?

[DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>]

> Why on earth do you only allow to search 4 days back and not any more?

There are *three* ways to search those archives:

* The archive's global search.  (http://www.delorie.com/archives/)
* The site's search.  (http://www.delorie.com/search/)
* The "days ago" search.

The "days ago" search is a simple grep (i.e. very expensive to run),
intended to be used to find a referred-to email and nothing else.
Grepping through a few days means hundreds of emails, whereas the
global search uses a keyword hash and database, so searching hundreds
of thousands of emails takes but a fraction of a second.

If you want to go further back, click on the "/archives/" link in the
header and use the global search, setting it to a week, month, year,
or infinity ago; or use one of the "Thread:" links in the mail
header.

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