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On 10/16/19 2:40 PM, [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
> I don't believe the migration is possible without the Yahoo group admin
> being involved - is that right?
Yes.
> I can't remember, but the migration process involves the Yahoo group
> admin having to do/authorise something to allow Groups.io to suck in all
> the messages.
Correct. The new list owner must enter the name of the Yahoo group,
and enter the administrative password.
This requires, of course, that someone has the administrative
password. I understand that at least some of these lists (the
Hercules-related mailing lists on which this very same conversation
seems to be occurring) are started by a guy who, at one time, was
awesome but then just up and abandoned the lists, without leaving any
sort of plan of succession in place.
> I don't think we should worry about that though - let's move and start
> afresh, and be done with it.
> Make the Yahoo messages available to download and search, and let them
> survive on Yahoo as just one method of consuming them, and everything
> new could be on Groups.io.
That may be our only option, unless the list owner can rejoin us and
get this done.
There are ways to slurp down the content, but it's a hassle, and it's
an even bigger hassle to get it all set up on groups.io.
> Primarily, as the survival of Hercules depends on them, I would give the
> biggest voice in this debate to the active developers of Hercules,
> active contributors to the group, and those who have contributed over
> the years too. I don't know who they are, but any new group is going to
> require their buy in to be a success.
I have to agree.
> Err...just noticed a couple of people joined my Hercules-390 groups.io I
> setup as a test...ooops, forgot to bin it after I played importing
> messages from Yahoo.
I was one of those people, sorry. But, why would you bin it? Seems a
good start to me.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA