I might have missed something posted previously, but anyway: What is the current status of the database search functions ? A couple of days ago I decided to try and use them, according to the clear directions in Eric's LDBASE MEMO (I imagined how it would look like in IBM_doc_language - and that WAS frightening :-). Anyway - out of all the TAUNIVM (that's the closest LISTSERV to me) lists, only 2 were found by the DB program. The usual response was: DATABASE xxxxxx DOES NOT EXIST DATABASE removed from list. I encountered the same problem on a few lists I tried on CEARN, DEARN and FRECP11. My guess is that it's a question of time. Is it really? If so - when can we expect to be able to search all the open lists ? Another problem concerning this: I tried to look for something in the INFO-VAX@DEARN db. The response was - TIMEOUT. Well - I narrowed my request to SEL * IN INFO-VAX SINCE 2/88 (and then SINCE 3/88) - still TIMEOUT ....I think that's the simplest search I can ask for, and that the cpulim for interactive usage should allow me at least that. Any comments/suggestions ? Am I misunderstanding something ? Zvika