--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ikpeylough" <ikpeylough@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard@...>
> wrote:
> > > - 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'm not sure if I can help. What procedure are you using to find
and
> copy the attachments?
Brute force!
The process I am following is as follows.
1. Look at a list of messages (e.g. via
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/messages/8120 )
2. If there is no paperclip to the right of the subject, there are
no attachments.
3. If there is a paperclip, look for an attachment box in the
archived message. It will contain the word 'download'. Paperclips
may be a false alarm. Some e-mail editors seem to have caused them
by returning the message replied to as an attachment. Such
attachments, and some others, are actually incorporated into the
archive text, so that when you look at the archived message, there
aren't any attachments.
Starting just before message 15000, Piotr's replies in particular
are marked with a paperclip but no longer include attachments. The
false attachment indicators seem to thin out after Message 17000, so
I'm provisionally assigning you, 'ikpeylough', the 18,000's and
19,000's should you wish to help.
4. Download the attachments to your machine.
5. Upload them to the att directory in the files area.
6. Make a record of which attachments came from which message. I am
logging this information in an HTML file, such as
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/att/index_1-2+4-
15.htm , which I'm editing using Notepad. I'm recording the message
number, the file name when downloaded, the file name in the message,
and the subject of the message. The last two items can be cut and
pasted from the message itself.
So that we don't duplicate work, I've been recording the allocation
of messages in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/att/archival.htm .
The simplest to avoid duplication if anyone else wishes to help is
to lay claim to a block through a message in this thread. I'll try
to keep the above file up to date. So, for the record, the
following blocks are already allocated:
1-15,999 Me, Richard Wordingham
18,000 to 19,999 'ikpeylough'
Richard.