glimpse. It's available at http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/. The search interface is custom written by Christopher Lindsey at Mallorn Computing.

That's done through a package called MHonArc, by Earl Hood. It's available from http://www.mhonarc.org/. The messages are put into MHonArc by various procmail filters.

This is due to a bug/feature in glimpse. To speed up searches, the script only checks the glimpse index for matches instead of checking the files themselves. However, a quick index search doesn't offer support for phrase checking it automatically inserts an AND between single words. In a case like this, the number of matches can be highly skewed. To compensate, the script does a search on the individual files in these special cases, taking significantly more time.

Other than reading our favorites, no. Checking each list for offensive material, copyright violations, etc. would be much too time-consuming. We provide a service which acts as a publishing medium, but we don't editorialize in any way.

Messages are automatically entered into the archives as soon as they are received. Sometime within 24 hours of their receipt messages will be automatically added to the search database.

The maintainers of the available list archives feel that this service is beneficial and have given us permission. In many cases membership to a list is contingent upon the allowance of publically available archives, but there are two ways to prevent your messages from being made available through this service:

• 'X-no-archive: yes' header

If the headers of your messages include a 'X-no-archive: yes' header

• 'no archive' at tail of message

The last line of any email message includes the word pair 'no archive' separated by a single space.

Why not? We think that it can be of great benefit to the horticultural community, and that's what we're here for. If we can help disseminate public knowledge in the course of our day-to-day activities, then we've achieved our goal.