Re: Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

"Wei-Hwa Huang [email protected] [spielfrieks]" <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:01:30 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.games.spielfrieks
Message-ID <CAFR8KCi-Z6gtGpg3XG8r1q56GG6--AjeTVV-q5rOz9B0VOAf9A@mail.gmail.com>
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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>


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