>you probably never paid attention to the selection in that listbox to >switch to a two year search. That can be auto defaulted from your account.

You're right! Because my default was set to the current 6-month period, I never noticed the 'last 2 years' option at the top of the list. I've changed my default now - many thanks for pointing this out.

>As, going further than that, searching in the entire archive, would give >too many unrelated messages as we can go as far as 1996.

I agree, 2 years is plenty.

Regards,
Alan