Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Shal, "Where there is great power there is great responsibility . . ." Winston Churchill, 1906 Donald wrote: The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. --George
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Donald Hellen
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel . . . <n.leaver@...> wrote: I think he is incorrect but at the very worst Mark would handle the DMCA request for you. Yahoo's stand was that the user had to delete his own posts, and
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Donald Hellen
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Duane, The procedures are somewhat up to the hosting site to establish. Groups.io's are specified in the TOS: /static/tos Of note is the requirement: o a description of where the
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Related to Duane's comment, I don't even think he'd have a case for a DCMA take down request if the material had not been published. I think 'published' implies making the material *public*, as in,
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Hmm, how would he know they'd been transferred if he didn't join? I believe he would have to give an exact location of (link to) the "offending" material before he could request a DMCA action. And as
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Duane
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel, Technically he's right that it isn't his job to delete them. However I think at that point I might have shrugged and let him file the request. I would also, as a courtesy to Mark, let him know
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Members prefer the io software to Yahoo. 130 have joined from the old group so far, I suspect there were in fact only about 3-400 of the 3000 nominal members who were still interested. We hope to get
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Noel Leaver
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
with the understanding that any that are left get transferred and after that, he would have to contact io tech support to see about taking down the rest of their messages. We offered him both those
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Noel Leaver
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Control over Photo section
The photos on the previous version of our group on Yahoo were a complete mess so I was not too bothered about taking them across to io groups. But I'd hoped io might have better facilities for
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Noel Leaver
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel . . . <n.leaver@...> wrote: You could have just given him a certain number of days to delete his posts with the understanding that any that are left get transferred and after that, he
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Donald Hellen
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
David, That sounds like just the ticket. With a downloaded copy of the transferred messages it should be possible to write a simple program that extracts the corresponding numbers. Or do that by
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Sarah, I don't work for Groups.io, so I can't speak to what's possible. For that you'd need to contact [email protected] - but it sounds like David has you covered for some of the technical details.
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Hi Sarah, Just a quick addition to Shal's remarks.? My group's transferred messages contains a special header field called "X-Yahoo-Msgnum" that should correspond to the original Yahoo message id.
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David Andrews
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel Thanks for sharing this experience. It's good to be warned. I think few of our members would have heard of a 'DMCA takedown notice' or be concerned, but like in your case, even one can cause
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Sarah Procter Abbott
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Shal We're talking about the transfer of 15,000 messages (many of which are long and using diacritic symbols for a foreign language). Not many messages would have been deleted but enough to throw the
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Sarah Procter Abbott
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel, There's one in every crowd. I Am Not A Lawyer, but - so what? As a matter of courtesy to objecting members I would probably delete their messages after the transfer. Or if there's too many of
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Sarah, As I said, I don't think you can rely on them being the same numbers. Depending on how many messages are involved it might not be too difficult to set up a table (in Excel or similar) that maps
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Shal Thanks for your prompt reply. This is our yahoo discussion group which we'd be interested to transfer: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dhammastudygroup/info (
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Sarah Procter Abbott
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
particular the following; A word of warning. I wanted to transfer a fairly large group with nominally over 3000 members (though far fewer active ones). When I proposed this almost all members were in
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Noel Leaver
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Sarah, I would guess that the file itself will transfer ok. However the links in it would not be automatically updated - they would continue to point to the Yahoo Group's archive. Moreover, I don't
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Shal Farley
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