[sdiy] PSA: Archives for Yahoo Groups

[Kenny Balys]

The Technosaurus stuff would be neat to see and read.

Where would you put it? archive.org?



On 24.11.20 21:10 , Mattias Rickardsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I must have missed the Chroma Polaris group, but I downloaded 3.8 GB of data
> from a bunch of other synth-related groups that I had found interesting but
> never cared to read, tell me if I should make it available:
> image.png
> After downloading them, it was kind of fascinating to see the photos stored in
> the groups. Old unique low-resolution images clearly originating from times
> before today's handy channels of easily finding all info we need. Archaic
> documentation business, futile at times, but occasionally fun. :-)
>
> /mr
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 00:21, Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl <mailto:ben at stuyts.nl>>
> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Last year, Yahoo started shutting down their Yahoo!Groups service. Most
>     functionality, including archives, was lost. On 15 December 2020 they will
>     shut down completely. I took a snapshot of several archives last year and am
>     putting them up on the synth-diy server.
>
>     I have put up a first draft of the archive for the old Yahoo!Groups Chroma
>     Polaris mailing list. You can find it here: https://synth-diy.org/yg-archives
>
>     More synth-related archives will follow. Currently only the email archive is
>     converted, but we’re working on the other features (files, etc). Many thanks
>     to Florian in providing the tools for converting the backup to readable html.
>
>     Let us know what you think!
>
>     Please get in touch if you have any relevant archives that you would like to
>     host here.
>
>     Ben
>
>