On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:33 PM Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: I would assume that list admins would have the ability to download the > archive of their entire list (hopefully in mbox or some other standard > format instead of some weird shit like HTML or XML).
A little history. Silklist is archived on yahoogroups, but was never hosted on yahoogroups. How? Like this: There was a site called mailvault which I was a beta tester of, that archived mailing lists. I did this by simply adding a scraperbot address to the subscriber list of silk. Mailvault eventually became something called egroups.com, which was a (mostly successful) attempt to rebrand mailing lists for the dot.com era. egroups.com eventually got acquired by yahoo and became yahoogroups. The silklist archive continued to exist as a historical curiosity within this. (As an aside, I worked with the yahoogroups team, which was run as a separate engineering entity, on one of my projects while I was at yahoo. It was bloody difficult to get them to do anything, even from the inside.) All of which is a long-winded way of saying that 1) I am not the admin of the yahoogroups silklist archive 2) I (and probably anyone else who does not have direct access to the back end database) has no way of downloading the message in bulk 3) The only way for a non-yahoo employee to do this at this point is to scrape it I guess. Udhay
