Re: Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)
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I've gotten it to work for some of my other groups but for some reason there are issues with spielfrieks (a bunch of time-outs and then some denial because too many attempts from the same IP address). I wonder if maybe the archives are too large for that python script to handle it. On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 1:32 AM Fraser [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Never mind, I have had enough issues trying to run it under python 3.7 and > have given up for now :-) > > Worst case storage wise, I imagine setting up a few Dropbox (or > equivalent) account via throw-away or domain-name email account could hold > the messages. > > Cheers, > > Fraser > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 4:05 PM Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How much space do those 10,000 messages take up? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Fraser >> >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 15:56, Jason May [email protected] [spielfrieks] < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I just used the following python tool to extract another private Yahoo >>> group: >>> >>> https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver >>> >>> A bit of a chore, but it worked. Took about an hour to pull down 10,000 >>> messages. I’m happy to help do this with spielfrieks. >>> >>> But we’ll need a place to store the archive for posterity. >>> >>> -Jason >>> >>> >>> >>> > -- Wei-Hwa Huang, [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------- "Where are all the time travellers?" -- generalizing the Fermi Paradox to four dimensions