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Yes, I'd love a copy of the mbox file for this group. Thank you for having
success where Yahoo failed me utterly (saying I had nothing to download).
Redundancy helps.
-- Mark F.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 7:19 PM Lin Sprague [email protected] [EAC] <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/13/2019 7:09 PM, Lin Sprague [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> >
> > I tried a couple of times to use the Yahoo Download Manager. The first
> > time I accidentally used the wrong account. I did actually get an email
> > a couple of days later saying my groups info was ready, but when I got
> > it, it was empty, which is actually correct. I resubmitted it with the
> > correct account, and almost a week later... crickets. I submitted it
> > again yesterday, but I don't expect any result.
>
> My Yahoogroups adventure...
>
> I mentioned before that I tried to retrieve the message archive for the
> EAC group by using PG Offline, but it's restricted to 1000 messages
> unless you pay for the full version. Then I tried using the Python
> script yahoo-group-archiver... and was successful. However, what I end
> up with are thousands of .JSON files, each which represent an individual
> message (actually, there are two files for each message so I have twice
> as many files as there are messages.) These could potentially be
> imported into a database, but it's not a trivial process and I don't
> have the patience or motivation to do it.
>
> I also mentioned above that I tried Yahoo's own Download Manager, but it
> seemed to ignore my requests. Then, almost two weeks later, I was
> surprised to get an email from Yahoo saying that my download was ready!
> What I got was a huge zip file containing a complete copy of all posts
> and files from all the Yahoogroups I was subscribed to. The messages
> were in mbox format, a common email folder format, and I've successfully
> imported them into Mozilla Thunderbird.
>
> So, now I have 27,500 email messages, representing everything from the
> EAC Yahoogroup since November 8, 1998. This was mostly an academic
> exercise for me, to see if I *could* do it. I don't really need this
> stuff for myself, but I'd hate to see it vanish from the Internet. If
> anyone would like a copy, let me know and I can probably get it to you
> via Dropbox or other file sharing service. If anyone can find a
> permanent home for this stuff, I'd be happy to help.
>
>
>
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