Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#1

Post by jstanley » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
github.com

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#2

Post by jstanley » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

Leaderboard: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar...

Unfortunately doesn't seem to be updated very frequently.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#3

Post by lucb1e » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 12:04 AM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #2

Leaderboard: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar... Unfortunately doesn't seem to be updated very frequently.

And my new yahoo account can't join any groups :/

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#4

Post by jstanley » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 12:06 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #3

jstanley wrote: post #2

Leaderboard: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar... Unfortunately doesn't seem to be updated very frequently.

And my new yahoo account can't join any groups :/

What error do you get? If it's:

> Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID. To join this group, you need to link your email address to a Yahoo account.

Then you need to go into "Account security" and link an email address with the account. I don't know why the instructions don't tell you this.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by lucb1e » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 12:15 AM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #4

lucb1e wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And my new yahoo account can't join any groups :/

What error do you get? If it's: > Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID. To join this group, you need to link your email address to a Yahoo account. Then you need to go into "Account security" and link an email address with the account. I don't know why the instructions don't tell you this.

Sorry, got sidetracked, wanted to edit in the issue link. It's this issue: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner/issues/1...

Thanks for the suggestion though, I saw that thread about linking a fallback email address as well but that seems to be a different thing.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by thinkingkong » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 12:24 AM UTC

How fitting that Yahoo archival needs to be organized by people.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#7

Post by crazysim » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 1:01 AM UTC

Is there a possibility of asking ReCaptcha to disable their protection for Yahoo Groups? It's a reach I guess.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#8

Post by ozfive » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 1:26 AM UTC

On It!!!

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

#9

Post by jancsika » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 1:36 AM UTC

Wonder if we could make a deal with all those casino seo spammers from indonesia. (Or whoever sells their service to them.)

If they will use their cache of yahoo addys to exfiltrate Yahoo Group content, we'll give them a free month of gitlab user spam usage no questions asked.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by landryl » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 1:46 AM UTC

Jumped in when we were joining groups starting with 'S', and now we're already at 'E'. Really satisfying.

Given that my account got a connection attempt from Sweden, I guess that's where the archivist live. Hopefully he will have a nice morning tomorrow thanks to the community.