Should we kill the YahooGroups files area?
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault... Doug
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
Yes, please do that! I hate registering in YahooGroups for umpteen time only to forget my credentials again. Marcin
On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
At 04:46 PM 9/6/2005, Doug Gregor wrote:
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
Good idea!
I'm not an administrator/moderator/whatever on YahooGroups! Do the moderators have the ability to download the entire contents of the files area easily? I'd rather avoid clicking on every single file individually... Doug
At 06:11 PM 9/6/2005, Doug Gregor wrote:
On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
At 04:46 PM 9/6/2005, Doug Gregor wrote:
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
Good idea!
I'm not an administrator/moderator/whatever on YahooGroups! Do the moderators have the ability to download the entire contents of the files area easily? I'd rather avoid clicking on every single file individually...
I'm not seeing any obvious way to bulk download. Anyone else have any ideas? --Beman
On 9/7/05, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu> wrote:
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> writes:
I'm not seeing any obvious way to bulk download. Anyone else have any ideas?
Perhaps wget -r will work?
Nope. You need to authenticate by submitting a form, so wget -r doesn't work. Thankfully there are Perl modules (sorry, Dave) that make this none too difficult. See the attached Perl script "ygspider" which can be used to spider the files from a Yahoo! group given the group name, a Yahoo! username and password. It requires the WWW::Mechanize Perl module to work. You can run "perldoc ygspider" or "ygspider --help" to get detailed help, but the basic usage is: ygspider groupname username password Beware that this script probably violates Yahoo! TOS and I seem to have managed to get my home IP address banned in my numerous test runs, but not before I sucessfully mirrored all of the Boost files. Let me know if I can send these someplace for better hosting. They use about 22 MiB of disk space in total. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com
On Sep 8, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Caleb Epstein wrote:
See the attached Perl script "ygspider" which can be used to spider the files from a Yahoo! group given the group name, a Yahoo! username and password. It requires the WWW::Mechanize Perl module to work. You can run "perldoc ygspider" or "ygspider --help" to get detailed help, but the basic usage is:
This script is *wonderful*. I've now mirrored everything locally; once I get everything bundled back together I'll move it to the new vault. Thank you! Doug
"Doug Gregor" wrote:
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
If anything, please keep the address, insert some text pointing to the new location (and possibly forbid adding new items). There are too many references around the world to Yahoo files that would get invalidated. /Pavel
Excellent idea - I hate YahooGroups too. Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com www.hetp.u-net.com | -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Doug Gregor | Sent: 06 September 2005 21:47 | To: Boost mailing list | Subject: [boost] Should we kill the YahooGroups files area? | | We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our | YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the | YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault... | | Doug
On 9/6/05 4:46 PM, "Doug Gregor" <dgregor@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
The same vault that just had a 100% data loss?... (Yahoo probably has redundant computers and a professional backup crew for their data.) -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com
Daryle Walker wrote:
On 9/6/05 4:46 PM, "Doug Gregor" <dgregor@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
We have a *much* better solution now, so why not just kill off our YahooGroups ancestry and move on? We could archive what's left in the YahooGroups section by year and make it available in the new vault...
The same vault that just had a 100% data loss?... (Yahoo probably has redundant computers and a professional backup crew for their data.)
No. It's the new vault which is now hosted on the Boost Consulting site. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org
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