diff --git a/README b/README
index ef216a8..d9e8043 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ Options:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -u URL, --url=URL     nettime url
   -l LIST, --list=LIST  nettime's list name (ex: nettime-l)
+  -a ARCH, --arch=ARCH  path to archive directory
 
  Dependencies: bs4
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diff --git a/archive_nettime.py b/archive_nettime.py
index 3f36fac..101ba3c 100644
--- a/archive_nettime.py
+++ b/archive_nettime.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def run(options):
 
     ## check valid url?... nej
 
-    nettime.archive_from_url(options.url, options.list)
+    nettime.archive_from_url(options.url, options.list, options.arch)
     sys.exit()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     p = OptionParser();
     p.add_option('-u', '--url', action="store", help="nettime url", default="http://www.nettime.org/archives.php")
     p.add_option('-l', '--list', action="store", help="nettime's list name (ex: nettime-l)", default="nettime-l")
+    p.add_option('-a', '--arch', action="store", help="path to archive directory", default="archives")
 
     options, args = p.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/lib/mhonarccrawl.py b/lib/mhonarccrawl.py
index 2391faf..7500425 100644
--- a/lib/mhonarccrawl.py
+++ b/lib/mhonarccrawl.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from pprint import pprint as pp
 import sys, os, re, json, gzip
 import traceback
 
-DELAY = 0.5
+DELAY = 0.2
 
 # hack for the mailbox module (re: force mbox.add() encoding to utf8)
 reload(sys) 
@@ -99,8 +99,18 @@ def collect_threads_from_url(url, base_arch_dir, mbox):
         for l in lists:
             n += 1
             logging.info("> " + str(n) + " / " + nbr_threads)
-            thread = archive_thread(l, base_url, None)
-            threads['threads'].append(thread)
+
+            try:
+                thread = archive_thread(l, base_url, None)
+                threads['threads'].append(thread)
+            except:
+                ex_type, ex, tb = sys.exc_info()
+                print ex_type
+                print ex
+                traceback.print_tb(tb)
+                del tb                
+                continue
+
             time.sleep(DELAY)
 
         # write