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Is there any interest in the old Yahoo group history?


 

I finally managed to pry the archives of the old mailing list out of Yahoo's hands. Is there any interest in preserving these historical emails? I'm not sure how to get them into groups.io, and it would still be a fair amount of work to put them on my website.

I will keep them regardless, should opinions change in the future.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
list moderator


 

I think it would be nice to have the history available to look back for previous discussions of howtos and bugs and such. If you can figure out how to import them into 开云体育 that would be awesome.

73,
Eric WG3K


 

Hi.

From memory, at least one other ex Yahoo group, has made the past
history of Yahoo group messages available in a groups.io file folder, as
just one massive text file, that of course can be searched.

Crude, but it works.

73.

Dave G8KBV

--
Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:


 

The download Yahoo gave me was four enormous files in old-style mbox format, so they are going to be fun to separate. If I can't figure out how to post them to groups.io in a reasonable format (reconstructing discussion threads, etc.), I may post them on my own website off the YAAC page.

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave_G0WBX via Groups.Io <g8kbvdave@...>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Is there any interest in the old Yahoo group history?

Hi.

From memory, at least one other ex Yahoo group, has made the past
history of Yahoo group messages available in a groups.io file folder, as
just one massive text file, that of course can be searched.

Crude, but it works.

73.

Dave G8KBV

--
Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:


 

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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


 

I haven't seen anything on the groups.io admin menus to do it. I might be able to manually post them elsewhere, but that still requires either having giant disorganized blobs or breaking them up into individual messages myself.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Eric H. Christensen via Groups.Io <eric@...>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 9:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Is there any interest in the old Yahoo group history?

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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


Josh Smith
 

If I can provide any assistance wrangling the Knox files let me know. I’ve experience doing this sort of thing in the past.

--
Josh Smith

Email: juicewvu@...
Phone: 304.237.9369(c)

Sent from my iPhone.

On Dec 23, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:

?The download Yahoo gave me was four enormous files in old-style mbox format, so they are going to be fun to separate. If I can't figure out how to post them to groups.io in a reasonable format (reconstructing discussion threads, etc.), I may post them on my own website off the YAAC page.

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave_G0WBX via Groups.Io <g8kbvdave@...>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Is there any interest in the old Yahoo group history?

Hi.

From memory, at least one other ex Yahoo group, has made the past
history of Yahoo group messages available in a groups.io file folder, as
just one massive text file, that of course can be searched.

Crude, but it works.

73.

Dave G8KBV

--
Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:







 

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

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 开云体育 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:
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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