>You can deal with the confusion of a half-indexed corpus of messages,
>because you have your hands on the constructruction of the site and know
>its structure inside out. Is there anybody else who needs to access the
>site? Having indices that work for some messages and not for others sounds
>like a gold plated way to convince would-be users that the resource is
>broken and unusable. Just a thought.
The site is http://www.mail-archive.com and has quite a few users. I
suspect nobody would notice if I pruned the MHonArc indexes to the
5000 most recent messages. Given the current user interface, do you
think I will alienate users?
Jeff
