Re: Moving Attachments to Files Area

--- 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
>
> > 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've created a specimen index as
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phoNet/files/attachment_index.htm .
However, the critical activity is to get the attachments archived in
some fashion. We can tidy up the indexes later.

We've only got one weekend in which to get this job done, if we're
going to do it.

Richard.