Re: Moving Attachments to Files (was: Important Yahoo! Groups Servi

From: ikpeylough
Message: 24927
Date: 2003-08-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yahoo! Groups" <notify@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <richard@...>
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:04 AM
> Subject: Important Yahoo! Groups Service Changes
>
> >
> > Dear Yahoo! Groups Moderator,
> >
> > IMPORTANT NOTICE:
> > You are receiving this notice because you are a moderator of one
> > or more groups. As part of our efforts to ensure that all Yahoo!
> > Groups users enjoy the same high-quality service, we will
> > implement the following service changes on Aug. 7, 2003:
> >
> > - Message Attachments: Yahoo! Groups will continue to deliver all
> > attachments sent via email, however, the attachments will no
> > longer be archived within the Messages area. You may continue to
> > upload files and images to the Files and Photos areas of your
> > groups. Please re-upload any attachments you would like to
> > preserve to the Photos or Files areas of your group. On Aug. 7,
> > all attachments in the Messages area will be removed, and Yahoo!
> > will be unable to retrieve such data.
>
> What are we going to do about the files on Cybalist? Do we need to
> split the messages into blocks of say, 2000 messages, and assign
> them to volunteers to uplink? I suppose we need to create
> hyperlinked indexes from message numbers to files in the archive.
> At least we can use the visible names, rather than the obscure URLs
> that they get translated to.
>
> I'll start the ball rolling by volunteering for one such block.
>
> Richard.

I'm not sure if I can help. What procedure are you using to find and
copy the attachments?

> P.S. What are we doing about Phonet and Nostratic? I've got
> Nostratica covered.