Edward, you certainly appear to be a true veteran of HTML ! Are you stepping up to the plate ? From all the replies so far, we appear to have all the postings archived. You said: "For $150 USD a year I can provide a **whole** lot more than maintained and supported search services for this list." So how much do you think it would cost to host all past archives (about 0.5GB in HTML) and still provide sufficient space to continually index the new ones? regards Peter Badcock > Of course.. Normally one has things so that new posts get automatically > appended to the index--- as it were, are imediately searchable. I've only > be doing this kind of stuff for over a decade--- in fact I put up the > very first mail2html back about a dozen years ago in responce to TimBL's > worry that nobody would bother to write HTML and that the window of > opportunity > is closed (my response.. well read the opening comments in that source!). > The w3 museum snapshot: http://www.w3.org/History/1993/WWW/Mail2HTML/ > so trust me I think I've given it some thought :-) ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.