Re: Archival - off list

From: Wordingham Richard
Message: 71925
Date: 2019-12-13

On 12 December 2019 at 22:53 "'Brian M. Scott' bm.brian@... [cybalist]" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

(I also regret the loss of messages in the Yahoo Old Norse group (norse_course), but at least the current activity — and there is some — will remain publicly available, since we moved it to Google Groups.)

Dear Brian,

They're not lost yet.  I've saved them in an Sqlite3 database plus loose files for the salvageable attachments.  I've also saved the files and photos, though, not being a moderator, I may have lost resolution.  I'm not intending to host that group, but I could convert the posts to a website section as for Cybalist for convenience.  Creating catalogues of files is currently a more labour intensive job.  (I've plans to publish a few lesser Yahoo groups.)  Given my current spare time workload, I may not get round to the non-Cybalist stuff until February 2020.  I can also let you have copies of my extraction program(s).  It uses the sqlite3 library, which is readily available for the main Linux systems.

I may be able to email the posts in chunks - you'd have to concatenate the stuff (Linux cat, DOSsy copy) in order to unzip it.  The uncompressed posts are about 50MB in Sqlite3.  For formatted files, tar and (g)zip is best - there's quite a bit of redundancy between posts.  The alternative would to post you a CD or DVD.

Richard.