# Searching the Archives *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jan 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David_Lebling *29 Jan 1999, 11:33* Altavista Discovery is a product that allows you to index the text on your system. If you burst the archives into separate files (one for each message), it would allow you to access them using their search engine. You can do queries like "mantis agia claw" to find files that had those three words in them. I tried a Beta version of this about a year ago and it worked pretty well. I don't know what its current state is, but navigate to " http://discovery.altavista.com" to find out more. It's a free download. -- Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha) ---