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Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by tpmx » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

kopiojnfaru wrote: post #53

philshem wrote: post #35

As of now(), it seems the reCAPTCHA is over the limit https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner/issues/1...

It works fine now, I have been joining groups for some hours.

That's great! Thanks to whoever fixed this - at e.g. Google or Verizon.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by barik » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

How many more groups are left to join? There's no easy to way as far as I can tell to get a sense of completion. The extension goes in reverse alphabetical order, but also loops around again.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by Diagon » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #52

I haven't seen anything about this saga in mainstream news; I can't see that it's going to be won without getting papers on-side.

There are three that we've noticed so far:

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-grou...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-o...

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-bl...

But yes, you are right. We need to keep pushing it into the public sphere. Twitter, Reddit, I hate to mention FB here, but ...

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by Diagon » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

landryl wrote: post #10

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.

Apparently now that they have gotten through the Fandom groups, and are working through the groups that were requested to be archived, they are ranked in order of number of members. So they are working on progressively smaller groups.

Re: Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

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Post by OJFord » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

Diagon wrote: post #63

OJFord wrote: post #52

I haven't seen anything about this saga in mainstream news; I can't see that it's going to be won without getting papers on-side.

There are three that we've noticed so far: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-grou... https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-o... https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-bl... But yes, you are right. We need to keep pushing it into the public sphere. Twitter, Reddit, I hate to mention FB here, but ...

I don't really consider those 'mainstream news', I've only heard of zdnet - I thought boingboing was a public WiFi hotspot provider.

I primarily mean newspapers. The Times (of London & New York), The Guardian, but Bloomberg too.

The story is probably a wider point about the fragility of online information, for which this is a mere significant event, but without that happening I just don't see the give-a-shit count increasing.