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Re: Is there any interest in the old Yahoo group history?


 

I've recently converted a group I manage (dedicated to sci-fi author
Clifford Simak) from Yahoo to Groups.io.

Apparently there was sporadic support for message conversion but Yahoo
changed some things and this is a frequently broken feature. I was
unable to find it on the Groups.io menus, so it's either broken again,
requires a premium subscription (or both).

The other possibility is the Internet Archive's Wayback machine:
. But I've not been able to identify a
crawl-able rollup page of messages like the sort used by SourceForge
lists (for example, wsjt-x):
.

You can plug that URL into the Wayback Machine and see some snapshots,
though none appear to be current, and the ability to readily search
archival snapshots is questionable.

I suppose, in the end, people probably don't want to simply bring them
in as groups.io posts, or subscribers will find themselves inundated by
hundreds of (old) e-mails. Perhaps a big searchable TXT file is as good
as it gets. I usually keep about 2-3 years of my lists locally,
including yaac-users, in a local Thunderbird folder. But for exporting,
you'd probably want to exclude the message headers and Yahoo-added
footers. I don't see an obvious way to do that without coding.

73, KD0KZE / Paul

On 12/23/2019 8:23 AM, Eric H. Christensen via Groups.Io wrote:
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On Monday, December 23, 2019 9:01 AM, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:

The download Yahoo gave me was four enormous files in old-style mbox format,
I'm surprised there isn't a way to import them into the groups.io posts if they are already in mbox format...

--Eric


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