On 10-8-2018 18:32, blackfalconsoftware@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I found the following two links that may help in your
> future decisions about changing from Yahoo Groups to another platform...
>
> 1...
> This link demonstrates that others have been having a lot of problems
> with their Yahoo Groups' access.  The posts are relatively recent from
> this years....
>
> https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Groups/Cannot-access-Yahoo-Groups-Database/td-p/468617

That seems to be about the Databases feature of Yahoo Groups that is not
used by the Firebird project.

But it is certainly possible that I don't see some of those issues
because I'm using our Yahoo Groups as a mailing list and don't normally
use the Yahoo Groups web interface except for moderating firebird-java
or for searching the archive if I can't find things locally.

To be honest, if I'd be using Yahoo Groups through its web interface,
I'd probably have advocated for migrating to Google Groups or another
solution years ago, as I think it offers sub-par user experience.

> 2...
> This next link demonstrates a possible way to extract the Firebird Group
> data into a Mongo database for backup purposes...
>
> https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup
>
> This process would require some knowledge of Python to perform the
> extract process.

That is interesting, thanks for that link. I'm going to put that on my
'things to investigate' list :)

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel