On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, at 12:28, Thaths wrote: > https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwe9p/yahoo-groups-is-winding-down-and-all-content-will-be-permanently-removed > > "Users won't be able to upload new content to the site after October 21 and > have until December 14 to archive their content, Yahoo said in an > announcement." > > As some of you might know, most of Silklist is archived in Yahoo Groups > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/info>. If Yahoo Groups > disappears, (most of) the 20+ history of Silklist will disappear too. > > Any thoughts on how to preserve the archives?
There was a discussion yesterday on Hacker News[1] about this: the top posts have links to scraping and data downloading utilities. It's been a while since I have used Y!G, but don't they have something to bulk-download all messages? I guess that could then be fed to Mailman to have a unified archive. Cheers, [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269614 -- José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org
