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Dale,

Shal, Thanks for the suggestion about contacting Wilson.

I'll be interested in hearing what he has to say. I took a peek at the user community but only found a couple old references to a defunct classic (pre-neo) Y!Group exporter and one answer from Wilson where the OP never followed up.

Looking at my own copy of PG Offline I'd say that neither the plain nor HTML text exports would be very gratifying to work with - they reproduce only the text of the messages (no HTML formatting or embedded images). There's an export to "SQL dump" but I don't speak database and haven't looked into that. Possibly it would have more complete message info, and possibly someone with the right skills could convert that to an mbox file.

This message was rejected by the beta group as not what that group was
designed for, but Mark Fletcher suggested I post it in GMF.

Yeah, he's got a lot on his plate. Anything we can do to answer usage questions and the like frees up his time to concentrate on features - which is the proper topic for beta. I don't know why the topic was allowed in beta earlier, it may be just an example of "moderator is human" (and overworked).

As to Mbox, do you know how an import would work? Does it require
assistance from groups.io support?

Yes. Only Y!Groups and Google groups have a degree of automation to the process, and even then there are manual steps by "the transfer agent" (aka Mark). To import an mbox file you would first need to host the file somewhere that Mark could read it (cloud storage of one brand or another) and then email a link to it to [email protected]. Mark may need other information as well, so the first step might be to contact support and ask how to proceed.

Also, the question of posting photos by the album rather than by the
photo would go a great way to making things work.

Sorry, I don't follow that.

As I run several related websites, I know I could put the old messages
and attachments up in html form on a web page. I just need to figure
out some sorting techniques that would make them easier to use.

If the original group's messages were not open to the public you may want to be concerned about posting their content on a publicly visible web site. There's a very strong YMMV there, based on the nature of your group and its members.

Shal


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