I'm getting new messages highlighted in red, but think that's to do with my computer settings.
Only results I could get in 'search' were by typing in 'Malew' (?) and got all 19 of current messages from 2nd & 3rd November, though it said they were all messages from Jan 1990 (not 1970) to today.
I for one, as a relatively recent joiner, will miss access to the archive if it has gone for good.

Does this warrant a phone call to someone? Or is that the point - does anyone know a human contact?