[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: [IMC-Tech] Re: Archive tidying for IMC-Aotearoa list

[evan]

I'm forwarding this to the techfed list. Some of the folks from Online 
Policy Group are there and i know they and others have a lot of 
experience with yahoo groups refugees.

If anybody knows how to extract the archives of a good lefty group from 
the evil clutches of yahoo then they do. Also i'm pretty damned sure 
that any perl hacker could write you a bot which did it, perhaps such a 
beast has already been written.

in solidarity,
evan

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 06:31  AM, Danyl Strype wrote:

> Tena koe Finn,
>
> U wrote:
>
>>> I don't think that there is any way [to suck out
> archives from YahooGroups and put them into an open source
> database]<<
>
> A guy going by the handle Albamuth <the_teddie@yahoo.com>
> managed it for a YahooClub called the Anarchist Commune.
> Here's what he said:
>
> "We used PostNuke which is a packaged PHP/MySQL opensource
> website. However, I really didn't like having to deal with
> all of it's interface issues and would rather design it all
> myself."
>
> I asked:
>
>>> will it still work with the new integrated YahooGripes
> format? <<
>
> he replied:
>
> "It would not work with the new format, no, but in
> principle it would work. All it does is use PHP
> to open a HTTP connection to Yahoo and store the
> messages in a MySQL database. It would need to be
> tweaked to accomodate the new Yahoo format, but
> that isn't hard, since it only took me two bored
> days at my old desk job to do in the first place."
>
> U wrote:
>>> I actually kinda like the yahoogroups archives becasue
> they are searchable. <<
>
> In theory sure, but I can seldom find what I'm looking for.
> I have an easier job using Google to seach the plain text
> mailman archives.
>
> RnB,
> Strypey
>
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