RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-24 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
S. I now hate python PPS I also now hate Yahoo. > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Steve Malikoff via > cctalk > Sent: 24 October 2019 02:51 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Yahoo Groups going away > > Jim sa

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-23 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Jim said > On 10/17/2019 6:52 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last night. >>> What's your strategy for archiving material off

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-23 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/23/19 5:44 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: >> https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup > I didn't get that to work.  Has anyone here got suggestions? Contact off > list.  It is getting errors, and I spent about > an hour trying to figure it out. I couldn't make it work

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-23 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: I suspect it ran at some point, maybe I've got the wrong versions of some sort. I have no special knowledge. this is just uninformed speculation, . . . If it is old enough, could it be that the changes for "NEO" broke it? (possibly

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-23 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 6:52 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last night. What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 8:02 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: The groups are free as long as you use less than 1GB of storage. More storage costs. Unfortunately, since this past February, you also have to pay in order to have Groups.IO do the moving of your messages, files and photos. No freebie for that

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ali wrote: I saw a posting about this on one of the groups I am in (XXCopy) and it seems as if groups.io is not free. At least there was talk of a $110 payment. Groups.io has a free level. But, if you subscribe to "premium" for one year ($110), then they will do the

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> The groups are free as long as you use less than 1GB of storage. More > storage costs. Unfortunately, since this past February, you also have > to pay in order to have Groups.IO do the moving of your messages, files > and photos. No freebie for that anymore. That explains it. BTW: is

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 9:49 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: The guy who runs groups.io is the one who created onelist, which became e-groups, with got swallowed up by Yahoo!, and then he left. He knows how to do it. People who have switched over seem happy with it. BUT, does he have an appropriate level of

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > The guy who runs groups.io is the one who created onelist, which became > e-groups, with got swallowed up by Yahoo!, and then he left. > > He knows how to do it. People who have switched over seem happy with > it. > BUT, does he have an appropriate level of resources to handle THAT much >

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I > > guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last > > night. > > What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and > Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 6:08 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: Cameron said Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last night. What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: Yes, other groups i belong to that moved have previously said that groups.io has a method of pulling groups over. Pull rather than push seems to be the way to go. Best to attack it from the groups.io end after setting up the new group there.

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Yes, other groups i belong to that moved have previously said that groups.io has a method of pulling groups over. Pull rather than push seems to be the way to go. Best to attack it from the groups.io end after setting up the new group there. On 17/10/2019 21:12, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily Javascript-encrusted that it's not at all easy to bulk archive from them. I tried a few tools (httrack, wget, curl) with

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Cameron said > Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I > guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last > night. What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> So if you subscribe to any Yahoo groups, or value any of that content, be > sure to archive it before your friendly telco sends ALL of it to the bit > bucket. Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Thanks for the link! Groups are already jumping ship. The popular destination seems to be groups.io, which has some good features. Zane Sent from my iPod > On Oct 17, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > A bit off topic, but I figure a number of us are interested in this

Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
A bit off topic, but I figure a number of us are interested in this older "social media" mechanism. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/yahoo-is-deleting-all-content-ever-posted-to-yahoo-groups/ So if you subscribe to any Yahoo groups, or value any of that content, be sure