David McMillan schrieb:

  does anyone 
know just big the (uncompressed) FFML archives are, in total?  And if 
those archives include the old FFML, current FFML, and any/all of the 
"refuge" lists that were set up during the Interregnum?

It is a bit more than 1,3GB (according to GMail).
I've uploaded the archives from ffml.anifics.com
(08.1995-today) onto my GMail-account.
The search-facility is as fast as with only 100MB.

	As for creating a search *engine*, well, that's a heck of a chore to 
ask someone else to do, and I know *my* coding skills aren't up to it. 
But I understand there *are* prepackaged search engines out there, some 
even designed for handling ML archives.  I could try doing a bit of 
research....

Google has done it for me...

Carsten, had fun with the upload, which needed 2 Weeks work.

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