Hi Cafe,<br>I was trying to search for the following Haskell functions in the mailing list archives. Here is a summary of the responses I have had from various servers upon searching various &quot;valid and normally used&quot; Haskell function identifiers.<br clear="all">

<br>Responses from the <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com">http://www.mail-archive.com</a><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&amp;q=%3E%3E%3D">&gt;&gt;=</a>, It seems the script searched for the string &quot;&amp;<b>gt</b>;
&amp;<b>gt</b>;&quot;<br><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&amp;q=*+-%3E+*">* -&gt; *</a>There are 0 results.<br>and so on...<br></div> <br>Responses from the <a href="http://search.gmane.org">http://search.gmane.org</a><br>

<div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&amp;query=%3E%3E%3D">&gt;&gt;=</a>  Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string &quot;&amp;<b>gt</b>;
&amp;<b>gt</b>;&quot;<br><a href="http://search.gmane.org/?query=*+-%3E+*&amp;author=&amp;group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&amp;sort=relevance&amp;DEFAULTOP=and&amp;xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.haskell.cafe---A">* -&gt; *</a>  Here it seems the script searched for the string &quot;&amp;<b>gt</b>;&quot;</div>

<div style="margin-left:40px">and so on...<br></div> <br><b>Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.</b><br><br>My current solution to this problem is: download compressed text archives and do a simple grep on it on my machine.<br>

<br>But the archives up to year 2000 only are found at <a href="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/</a>.<br>So, as an aside: Where do I find the earlier messages for downloading?<br>

<br>Thanks,<br>Damodar<br><br>