On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:46 AM Frances <frances@...> wrote:
Yes, Susie. This just happened after Mark fixed it the last time Yahoo did this.
You could wait. Or you could start your group in Groups.io without a migration. It really depends on how important the message archive on YahooGroups is to you.
If you started a new group, you can do a 1-month premium subscription so that you can invite all of your members. /static/pricing This would allow you to directly add members, rather than just invite members.
I am not sure about whether you are able to export your message archive from Yahoo yourself. Then import it in some way (files, database, wiki) to Groups.io
Not as easy as the transfer.
Frances
If Susie (sbcurrie) has a complete or partial archive of the messages in her group in an email folder (assuming incoming email was sorted and saved to folders as specified according to an email filter)
on her own computer then you have a Unix mailbox file for that Yahoo group. This is fairly portable data. I have dealt with transfer of a Yahoo group three times so far, in the past. In one instance I sent the admin of our Mailman list host and he integrated that archive into my Mailman message archive, seamlessly. Maybe could do the same thing? for you with your new group. In the second instance I ftp'd the Yahoo message archive contained my Unix mailbox file into my website using my shell account then ran hypermail or mhonarc on the file to create a mail to html archive for public viewing. So, last resort if you have a Linux shell account on some website (many web hosts offer this) then you can at least put the old Yahoo archive online somewhere as an archive viewable externally from your message archive. Not all email readers create these Unix mailbox files (its just a big text file with concatenated messages that has headers a mail2html converter can use to create an html archive). Thunderbird and Claws do create these files, easily accessable. A Mailman list message archive creates these files for download and reading in a text editor or post processing with a converter. It it might be possible that Gmail also creates them for download. Appending and integrating email folder files into a list would be a nice feature which they could charge for or offer in their premium package.
