> Being able to look at the mail archive one message at a time is
> better than nothing, but lacking any ability to search the content,
> we need to be able to download an entire MONTH's worth of
> messages.  There are SO many times I need to refer to previous
> answers, and just cannot find them!  I need to be able to grep
> thru the entire month's or year's worth of messages at once!

Have you tried the "search" option at the bottom of the page at the URL
below?  It might solve your original problem without having to download
the entire archive.

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/

Cheers,
Rob