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Milt, and others with BigTent groups --

I've had some emails with Mark Fletcher about this and he confirms that if any BigTent mod wants to import to Groups.io, and can get their archive into mbox format, then they should zip (or gzip) the mbox file and upload it to online file storage somewhere.

Then send an email to [email protected] with a link to the uploaded file and the particulars of the group to which it should be uploaded. Mark didn't mention it, but I would imagine the group's own Files section could be used for this, presuming that the archive fits. Which it certainly ought to if you zip or gzip it.

Upon request, BigTent Support sent our group's BigTent moderator a
dump of all discussions dating from the time the group moved to
BigTent in 2014 up to to a few days ago. It took a few days for them
to get this done.

That's very good news for anyone looking to move here from BigTent.

The dump was in .tgz format, ...

That's a common compressed format, similar in function (but not detail) to zip file format. By itself that doesn't tell you anything about the file(s) inside the tgz (TAR GZip) file.

and our tech guru, Bob Leder, successfully created a simple python
program to convert the entries from that dump into email messages and
mail them individually to our groups.io group.

So your group's problem is likely solved to your satisfaction.

For other BigTent group mods Bob's utility is probably a good place to start for a utility that will convert that dump into an mbox file. Mbox is a concatenation of raw email messages, so it may be as simple as doing a file capture of the messages after they are formed and then not sending them (don't call the SMTP part of the program).

If Bob would be willing to make a version of his utility that outputs an mbox file, that would be a big help for others. The advantage of having Groups.io import it, versus what Bob did, is that support can put the original message Date: and From: information in place in the group's Messages.

This is probably also an opportunity for those wanting to import from Mailman lists or other services that can deliver your archive in mbox format (or in a format you can convert to mbox).

I don't think Mark is willing to take on the effort to research and implement conversion utilities from BigTent or other formats, so that part of the process is on you, the person wanting the import.

Shal


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