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However, it was that search of the "to" field (which happened every Self-Search as well as the "to:" field searches) that caused massive slow-downs and prevented more than 10 or so days worth of history in the Self-Search.

I was right!

Yes Ernie, you were right. The server is now very fast, but totally useless for going back and confirming what some liberal said last month or last year. Isn't that one of the things we FReepers are supposed to be doing - keeping the record straight?

Unfortunately, all that work that you and I did indexing the "calpowercrisis" articles is still lost down the memory hole.

I just tried a search for "calpowercrisis" and came up with less than 50 hits out of at least 1500 articles that you and I and others tagged that way in the "To:" field. The oldest one was posted three weeks ago.

If I search for "snopercod", I get hundreds (maybe thousands) of hits. I don't have enough time to find how far "my comments" would go back in time.

I guess I just don't understand why a search on "calpowercrisis" couldn't do the same if that word could be "registered" as a user.

Or maybe FR needs it's own search engine on a separate server. Make it available to those who donate towards the cost of setting it up and operating it. All I know is that something needs to be done.