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    From Beery@FREEWAY to All on Mon Feb 19 07:13:00 2018
    Hey,

    Though I would post this out there if anyone can make use of it. If you have an area that used to or still is on YahooGroups, I have a way to bring those messages in the Mystic BBS software.

    The first thing one has to do is run PG Offline to dump all the messages from the group. I've dumped two groups; one with ~1800 messages and the other
    with approximately 85,000 messages.

    After the messages are dumped, you have to use PG Offline to Export those messages to a pipe delimted text file.

    At this point, you can then import the text file into Microsoft Excel with
    the pipe delimter.

    From there, you need to do just a bit of cleanup. I had < 1% of the messages that were very heavy into HTML and had to be deleted as it screwed up the layout of one message per line. Using the sort routine identified those messages very easily allowing a mass delete of the bad messages. Then, I resorted back in numerical order.

    I wrote some VBA code that is launched by a button. At this point, it writes
    a INI file out to be used by Mystic BBS's MUTIL program. A second series of files are written out to a directory containing the filenumber.txt file.

    I then go back and edit the INI file and place the appropriate INI
    instructions for MUTIL at the top of the file and save it.

    Then, simply running MUTIL filename.ini starts bringing in those messages
    into an area one has setup.

    Now, I am not suggesting these messages be dumped into the echomail areas in Retro. Rather, dumped into a separate message base you create from your
    BBS system.

    When you start the MUTIL program, it is going to take time. Small dumps of < 2000 messages are quick. For my 85,000 messages, the first 32,000 messages were about 12 hours. I'm now on part 2 of 3 of that segment.

    Yes, it is a bit of work, but it does allow the preservation of some
    historical content.

    If anyone is interested in the file, it is available on my BBS as MysticExport.xlsm. My BBS is 9640News.ddns.net port 9640.

    Beery

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (80:774/27)
  • From Richard@FREEWAY to Beery on Tue Feb 20 08:42:00 2018
    let me kow how it goes. how do you keep it uptodate ?

    I have a cople of goups I would love to inport

    the fun way would be to figure out how to post back to the group !

    Thanks for your work !

    Richard Szajkowski AKA The Wizzard

    U.S.S. Alliance BBS (Brampton) (Born 1984 Reborn 2017)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: U.S.S. Alliance (BBS Brampton) (80:505/4)
  • From Beery@FREEWAY to Richard on Tue Feb 20 14:01:00 2018
    Richard,

    The import/export back to YahooGroups is not setup yet. Myself, I am waiting to see what the next release of Mystic will offer.

    Import should not be an issue if you have something like an outlook client
    and Windows. Just run a utility to retrieve the message, save the body of
    the text out as a file, and write a MUTIL INI file out for file processing.
    I think it would be "simplest" if each YahooGroup had a unique email address.

    Exporting it back out if someone replies on the BBS will be trickier which I have not figured out how to approach yet. If there was a way to export a message to an email address instead of a HUB, that would be the preferred route. If someone knows of software to do that, that would be great. I just have not seen anything yet.

    Yesterday mid afternoon, I did complete the import of 85,000+ messages. It took around 24 hours to process that many messages.

    Beery

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (80:774/27)
  • From Geri_Atricks@FREEWAY to Richard on Wed Feb 21 11:29:00 2018
    Re: Re: YahooGroups

    let me kow how it goes. how do you keep it uptodate ?
    I have a cople of goups I would love to inport
    the fun way would be to figure out how to post back to the group !
    Thanks for your work !
    Richard Szajkowski AKA The Wizzard

    If your system has internet mail access, could you not setup a message area
    on your BBS to accept the emails from the yahoogroup and set the BBS up as a group member?

    -Dallas Vinson
    -SysOp: Legends of Yesteryear BBS
    -Telnet: loybbs.net:23322 Fidonet: 1:123/256 Cyber-Net: 40:100/31 -SFnet: 42:1/1 | Dixienet: 901:1/3

    --- Virtual Advanced Ver 2 for DOS
    * Origin: Legends of Yesteryear (80:256/0)
  • From Richard@FREEWAY to Geri_Atricks on Wed Feb 21 14:37:00 2018
    On 02/21/18, Geri_Atricks said the following...

    Re: Re: YahooGroups

    let me kow how it goes. how do you keep it uptodate ?
    I have a cople of goups I would love to inport
    the fun way would be to figure out how to post back to the group ! Thanks for your work !
    Richard Szajkowski AKA The Wizzard

    If your system has internet mail access, could you not setup a message area on your BBS to accept the emails from the yahoogroup and set the
    BBS up as a group member?

    -Dallas Vinson

    I use Gmail for my yahoo groups , how would I pull that data from Gmail ,
    that would be the question I guess

    Just a thought thats all

    Richard Szajkowski AKA The Wizzard

    U.S.S. Alliance BBS (Brampton) (Born 1984 Reborn 2017)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: U.S.S. Alliance (BBS Brampton) (80:505/4)
  • From Geri_Atricks@FREEWAY to Richard on Sun Feb 25 07:24:00 2018
    Re: Re: YahooGroups

    If your system has internet mail access, could you not setup a message area on your BBS to accept the emails from the yahoogroup and set the BBS up as a group member?
    I use Gmail for my yahoo groups , how would I pull that data from Gmail , that would be the question I guess
    Just a thought thats all

    SHOULD just be a matter of making a POP3 connection to that email address.

    -Dallas Vinson
    -SysOp: Legends of Yesteryear BBS
    -Telnet: loybbs.net:23322 Fidonet: 1:123/256 Cyber-Net: 40:100/31 -SFnet: 42:1/1 | Dixienet: 901:1/3

    --- Virtual Advanced Ver 2 for DOS
    * Origin: Legends of Yesteryear (80:256/0)
  • From Richard Menedetter@FREEWAY to Richard on Wed Apr 4 14:50:00 2018
    Hi Richard!

    21 Feb 2018 14:37, from Richard -> Geri_Atricks:

    I use Gmail for my yahoo groups , how would I pull that data from
    Gmail , that would be the question I guess

    For example with IMAP

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

    CU, Ricsi

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  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Richard on Sun Jul 29 22:19:00 2018
    On 02-20-18 08:42, Richard wrote to Beery <=-

    let me kow how it goes. how do you keep it uptodate ?

    I have a cople of goups I would love to inport

    the fun way would be to figure out how to post back to the group !

    Synchronet with the ListGate module. :)

    Sorry about the slow reply, just catching up on old messages here. :)


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  • From Nighthawk@FREEWAY to Vk3jed on Thu Aug 2 20:31:00 2018
    Vk3jed wrote to Richard <=-

    the fun way would be to figure out how to post back to the group !

    Synchronet with the ListGate module. :)

    Sorry about the slow reply, just catching up on old messages here. :)

    The problem with this setup is that Yahoogroups usually has its emails
    on HTML format... when this is imported over Listgate it can get really
    ugly at the BBS.



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  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Nighthawk on Sun Aug 5 17:41:00 2018
    On 08-02-18 20:31, Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    The problem with this setup is that Yahoogroups usually has
    its emails
    on HTML format... when this is imported over Listgate it can
    get really
    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you. Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.


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  • From Nighthawk@FREEWAY to Vk3jed on Sun Aug 19 23:30:00 2018
    Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.



    ---
    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa \____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


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    ___ MultiMail/Mac v0.51

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Titan's Orbit - Experimental System (80:21/1)
  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Nighthawk on Tue Aug 28 07:03:00 2018
    On 08-19-18 23:30, Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.

    Yep, they've had those features for 15-20 years at least. :)


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  • From Nighthawk@FREEWAY to Vk3jed on Sun Sep 9 21:24:00 2018
    Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.



    ---
    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa \____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... "Rasgaram meu saco!" - Perninha, Encontro Union-WolfNet

    ___ MultiMail/Mac v0.51

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Titan's Orbit - Experimental System (80:21/1)
  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Nighthawk on Thu Sep 13 22:09:00 2018
    On 09-09-18 21:24, Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.

    The admin one is brutally effective.


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  • From Nighthawk@FREEWAY to Vk3jed on Sat Nov 3 21:01:00 2018
    Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    ugly at the BBS.

    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.



    ---
    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa \____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... "Rasgaram meu saco!" - Perninha, Encontro Union-WolfNet

    ___ MultiMail/Mac v0.51

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Titan's Orbit - Experimental System (80:21/1)
  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Nighthawk on Tue Nov 6 06:44:00 2018
    On 11-03-18 21:01, Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-


    You can tell YahooGroups to send messages in plain text format to you.
    Or if you have control of the list, you can strip HTML altogether.

    Really? I will give it a try then.

    The HTML stripping at the mailing list level is really neat when you want to keep things to plain text. :)


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