[peel] Re: Yahoo Groups is a Norwegian Blue

[john guthrie]

so are folks interested in moving to groups.io? it's pretty simple to do, a
couple of other groups i'm involved with have done so with minimal fuss.

again, whether we move content (which would cost $110) or not, we need an
admin or moderator to chime in

john


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:15 PM iaparkin@... [peel] <
peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> The files, photos and links are easy enough to make available online. as
> they are flat files. I can also upload the posts somewhere either as a
> dump of the SQLLite database, flat files or something similar.
>
> The PG software has a number of options for exporting to flat files, but
> they are pretty simplistic date ordered dumps. An example of a HTML
> formatted dump page is here - https://bit.ly/2nZB3ee. The messages are
> presented 50 per page, so 489 files and 96MB in total, with each page
> having a pretty ugly header with the text of the individual posts appearing
> below.
>
> Making the post available in a more readable readable threaded format will
> take a little bit more effort, but that is also doable.
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> NB - There are also options for exporting as SQLLite and MySQL dumps, but
> they unfortunately crash the PG program on my desktop.
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> ---In peel@yahoogroups.com, <grafpoo@...> wrote :
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> yes, it's $110 to use the groups.io migration tool. probably better than
> trying to cajole you into uploading all that content, heh
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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 5:57 PM iaparkin@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
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> It appears that transfers to groups.io are not free, they require a
> premium or enterprise subscription -
> https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups
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