Temporary solution

[davewitley]

Can I just point out that, for those with Winzip (or similar zipping 
software - it is easy enough to get) there are partial archives to 
be found at  HPforGrownups-Archives , HPforGrownups-Archives2  
 and HPforGrownups-Archives3  , all Yahoogroups whose file sections 
contain zipped up text archives of earlier messages.

It takes a bit of time and effort to download them, but once done 
you can at the minimum use Notepad to search 1000 messages at a time.

David