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| Author: | Thomas Cornillie [ Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Any members of the IRMList Yahoo Group here? |
As has been discussed in other threads, access to Yahoo Groups will end this Saturday. Some Yahoo Groups have migrated their archives to a new service - groups.io. However, it looks like the IRMlist Yahoo Group wasn't one of them. There is a utility that can download the entire group: http://www.personalgroupware.com/ I have been using it for the past week to capture as many groups that I can that haven't migrated. The software developer has been providing active support and there is a good forum where users have been sharing trouble shooting tips. Are there any members of the IRMList Yahoo Group that could download the group. I estimate that, using the software above, it will take about 4-5 hours of mostly unsupervised computer time. The IRMList is worth preserving somewhere, whether it makes it back onto the internet or it lives on a server at the IRM archives. There were many important developments that happened in the 2000-2015 time period (when the IRMList was most active) that will shape the museum for years to come. I'm going to try to save the IRMList, but I might run out of time as I'm also trying to preserve other groups that didn't migrate to groups.io. Please send me a PM or reply to this message if I can be of any help. |
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| Author: | Terry Dempsey [ Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Any members of the IRMList Yahoo Group here? |
There's been a stay of execution until January 31st, 2020, but you will have to send in a request to yahoo. https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/210 ... -date-time The Soo Line, WC and Soo/Milwaukee groups also contain loads of technical and roster information, as well as the recollections of former employees and historians who have since passed away. |
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| Author: | Thomas Cornillie [ Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Any members of the IRMList Yahoo Group here? |
The tool that Yahoo offers only downloads the data that was contributed by the person associated with that e-mail. The software that I mentioned will capture the entire group - all files, posts, photos. From all indications that software will no longer be effective after 11:59 pacific time tonight when Yahoo ends access to groups. |
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