Does anyone know where the actual archives for the mail list are kept
Are they in a database rather than html files on disk ?
It looks like wa.exe knows how to retreive the archives but I have never
seen this
archive tool anyone know anything about it ?

Normally I can use a url like this
http://www.google.ca/custom?sitesearch=gerry.vanagon.com
to search but that never searches any of the mail archives

the http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon
is quite SLOW & not all that accurate ...