There's even a (one o'them famous) metric for the quality of this here operation:
A couple weeks back: Yahoo finally discovered the *threaded forum* !!
a vast improvement over its previously unSearchable flat hodge podge, but a shadow of zIWE.
(Several of those are repositories for special-interest lore as cannot be found elsewhere; like, material from some of the people who built the gadgetry of interest. But Yahoo still allows the earliest material to gradually evanesce - to keep even the active forums-with-a-Purpose to an arb size.)
Get it on CD or lose it: mantra for the Age.
And yet.. and yet - their New Improved search ain't nowhere near Ours.
Thanks again, boffins.