Hi folks, A while back there was some discussion about indexing the archive of the mailing list. Still a good idea, but I wanted to suggest a user-land solution to the problem. It is possible to find stuff on the archive using Google. This shouldn't be a surprise -- I, for one, cannot imagine how I ever knew anything in the years B.G. (before Google). Try going to http://www.google.com/ and entering this as your search: site:millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov clamp This will return a hit for every entry in the archive that discusses spline clamps. In my last posting to the mailing list, I did this google search: site:millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov imaginary energy The "site:" directive tells google to restrict its search to pages that match that site. I learned about this trick from the book Google Hacks http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004478/qid=1077200261/sr=2-1/ ref=sr_2_1/002-8270889-0247203 HTH, B -- ********* PLEASE NOTE MY NEW PHONE, FAX, & ROOM NUMBERS ****************** Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/