Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)
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I just want to thank those of you working on a solution. I wish I could help but I have no expertise in this area. I can't even follow the ideas being thrown around. To those of you tackling this, we salute you! Jacob On Tuesday, 22 October 2019, Rodney Somerstein [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've also been seeing that the mailing list functionality will still work.. > Thanks for pointing that out. > > Since no one seems overly excited about doing something else, we can just > keep it as is, I suppose. The announcements about Meeple's Choice can still > go out and so on, since the voting is hosted at a site that handles the > polls better. We just won't have the archives of emails or anything else > here. If someone wants to host those, that would be great from a historical > standpoint. I don't know if they will still support sending automatic > reminders. I'll adjust what gets sent out each month (long overdue anyway) > and cut it down to one email just to remind everyone the group still exists. > > -Rodney > > Wei-Hwa Huang [email protected] [spielfrieks] wrote on 10/20/19 6:26 PM: > > > Yeah, I fixed or worked around the bugs in the script (some emails return > a 500 error; the timeout period was too short for all of the spielfrieks > email; some non-UTF characters in filenames cause the script to barf) and > all mail, files, photos, poll, and links come out to 521MB. > > There is one thing worth mentioning -- the mailing list will still > continue to work. It's just that mail will no longer be archived. > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 9:28 AM Jason May [email protected] [spielfrieks] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> In my case, the email archive takes up just under 80 megabytes. That does >> not include any attachments, just the mail bodies with all the headers >> (files in .eml format). >> >> The script also downloads files and photos uploaded to the group. >> >> > > -- > Wei-Hwa Huang, [email protected] > > > >