But I also find it not acceptable to ask newcomers to consult the archives while being well aware that the official archive (@ redhat.com) is horribly broken -- and no-one seeming to care to fix it or at least putting a link to a working archive there...
I don't have any trouble with the fedora-list archives at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
What makes them "horribly broken"?