Complaints about using this list...

[Kim Lux]

I've got a couple complaints about using this list.  I'm looking for
suggestions to improve my experience with it.

a) I can't seem to get searches to find topics that I know are in the
lists.  I don't have an example off the top of my head, but it would
save me a ton of time if I could do a good advanced search on these
archives, something like being able to specify multiple keywords in the
subject or in the body, that sort of thing.  

b) I get the list summary, but it isn't convenient to reply to the posts
like that.  I can't reply on the list website itself and I don't want to
get the list posts as individual emails because the volume is too high. 

I find reply to posts from the list summary to be slow because you have
to manually edit the subject and if you don't get it right you've just
created a new topic.  I think I wish that this list (and others) were a
regular usenet newsgroup, but I understand that would have some
drawbacks too.   

How is everyone else working with this list ?

I'm beginning to think that I should configure evolution to sort my
emails into topics and get the whole list as individual posts.  I could
then search them from within evolution and I could easily reply to
them. 

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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.