[OSM-newbies] Searching email list archives

[Richard Moss]

 Is there a way to do a search of the archives of an email list?  I have a  question which I'm guessing will have been discussed before, probably in the Tagging list, but opening each month separately and scrolling through the subject lines could be a bit tedious.

The question, in case anybody has a good answer, is what to do when you come across an instance where there is a node taggeed, and then someone (else, possibly) has drawn an area to represent the same feature and tagged it accordingly.  I came across two examples recently, one was a village, and the other, a childrens' playground.  Both looked a bit silly at certain zoom levels in Mapnik, where the village name or playground icon is duplicated.  Is there a consensus?

So how do I serach the archives?

Richard