John Maclean wrote:
> hey Chaps,
> 
> I've now got close to 12,000 emails stored on this box from this
> mailing list. What methods do you chaps use to find stuff here? 
> 
> grep (topic) 
> grep (module /class)
> some pther thing? 
> 

Hmmm... why not just use Google? 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby