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Transfer/Import of Messages from Yahoo without a Yahoo Moderator

 

I have a Yahoo group to migrate with no Moderator or List owner - he's been uncontactable for a long time and is believed to be ill. I've managed, with another tool, to download the whole message base to a Sqllite database, but having only member access there are nearly no email or other details of the list members. Are there known to be any ways of getting the message base into groups.io? It seems clear that the standard transfer cannot work.

Jim C
 

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:14 AM, Jim Champ wrote:
I have a Yahoo group to migrate with no Moderator or List owner - he's been uncontactable for a long time and is believed to be ill.
Jim -- This situation of no continuity plan is all too common.

I've managed, with another tool, to download the whole message base to a Sqllite database, but having only member access there are nearly no email or other details of the list members. Are there known to be any ways of getting the message base into groups.io??
Unfortunately, no.

Rumor has it that one or two people who were able to get their message base into Unix mbox format were able to get their messages into a message archive with help from support. That was a few years ago, and I believe Mark has since been reluctant to do this, lest it become a vector for someone looking to steal someone else's group.?

Such abuse may seem unlikely, but it only has to happen once.

I suggest you continue to try to contact the existing group owner and/or Yahoo support and get someone on that end to give your subscription the necessary privileges. In doing so, please consider the possibility that the original Owner does not want the group to continue in his absence .

Failing that, the fallback is to print whatever message archive you are able to salvage into one long PDF file and upload that to the files area.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
 

On 2019-10-18 14:12, Bruce Bowman wrote:

lest it become a vector for someone looking to steal someone else's group.
Such abuse may seem unlikely, but it only has to happen once.
That's fair enough and more or less what I expected. No doubt if I were really keen I could get a custom domain and create dummy user ids, then create a script to repost all the messages as coming from the dummy ids, but the game doesn't seem worth the candle. Not to mention 70,000 posts in a short space of time! I may look at front ending the sqllite archive with something, but of course the little matter of copyright comes into play, since I'm unlikely to be able to contact all those posters to seek permission.

thanks for your time, Jim C
 

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What tool did you use? I have a bunch of groups.?

William R. C. Ellis
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On Oct 18, 2019, at 09:16, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

?On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:14 AM, Jim Champ wrote:
I have a Yahoo group to migrate with no Moderator or List owner - he's been uncontactable for a long time and is believed to be ill.
Jim -- This situation of no continuity plan is all too common.

I've managed, with another tool, to download the whole message base to a Sqllite database, but having only member access there are nearly no email or other details of the list members. Are there known to be any ways of getting the message base into groups.io??
Unfortunately, no.

Rumor has it that one or two people who were able to get their message base into Unix mbox format were able to get their messages into a message archive with help from support. That was a few years ago, and I believe Mark has since been reluctant to do this, lest it become a vector for someone looking to steal someone else's group.?

Such abuse may seem unlikely, but it only has to happen once.

I suggest you continue to try to contact the existing group owner and/or Yahoo support and get someone on that end to give your subscription the necessary privileges. In doing so, please consider the possibility that the original Owner does not want the group to continue in his absence .

Failing that, the fallback is to print whatever message archive you are able to salvage into one long PDF file and upload that to the files area.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

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