JOjonah-archive·Dec 11, 2019
Hi all, Archive Team is still working on backing up as much of Yahoo Groups as they're able to, as discussed in this previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737696
Info about the archival process: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
Details about downloading groups you're a member of: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNCAgMN-Q9koFK1EzEFek2k4...
Tooling to do this from the CLI: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-group-archiver
If you want to help the effort, run yahoogroups-joiner to help the Archive Team join as many public groups as possible: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner
Run the Archive Team Warrior if you have available compute/storage: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
(Disclaimer: I don't work directly with Archive Team, but I work for the Intern
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et Archive, which is where most of this data will end up living hopefully forever. We're also in the midst of our annual fund drive -- https://archive.org/donate/ if you're able and interested in helping out monetarily.)