Bruce -

A little tangent from this thread, but I thought I'd leave it connected.

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> 2. The groups.io mbox import service. This retains both message

>?ownership and proper posting dates, but not attachments.

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> If you use groups.io's service, just make darn sure you tell Mark

>?exactly which [sub]group is your intended destination, and

>?provide the correct "messages.zip" file.

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Is there a reason why the import couldn't be put right into the message archives? I've rescued an orphaned group and we have the Yahoo zip files for the group. (We also have PGO files.)?The current groups.io archives start from about a year ago, and I recognize the message numbering of the imported messages?would fall into the sequence on the date it was imported.

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I already have a group that was transferred back when group transfers were just getting started, and there are messages from that date mixed in with the archives as they were downloading. But by displaying messages in chronological order, the message numbers don't particularly matter.

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Attachments aren't going to reattach anyway, so I don't see why it would matter if the old messages were put into the current archives. Is there something about threading that uses the message numbers?

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None of my groups have subgroups, and I'd rather not have to create a subgroup which is just likely to confuse many of the members.

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Thanks for your thoughts.

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Dano

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