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From: Gerhard Häring (gerhard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-19 05:36:40


Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 08:31 PM 3/18/2002, Carl Daniel wrote:
>
> > The archive is still a bit confused. Try again tomorrow - I'm
> > uploading a
> > file with messages up through 27136 right now. In
> > the current archive the threads are messed up, and the messages are
> > in an odd order.
>
> A little background - YahooGroups doesn't have a function to export an
> archive in bulk. Carl had to write a script to view each message one at
> a time. He then had to write a script to convert from HTML to mbox
> formats. Since the messages date partially from the time when they were
> eGroups messages (before Yahoo groups bought eGroups), he had to cope
> with format changes in mid-stream. [...]

Doesn't anybody here have an mbox archive of the old messages that you
can use?

Gerhard


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