Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:18:47 -0400
Reply-To: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
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From: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Subject: YAHOO GROUPS APOCALYPSE EMERGENCY TOMORROW -- WHAT TO DO
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Yahoo Groups (the operator of many Vanagon related resources) is partly
shutting down today, Monday, October 28, 2019. As of this date, the
website is scheduled to start becoming non-responsive and users will no
longer be able to upload FILES to the FILES area. The incredible history
of older emails, which probably represents a bazillion hours of advanced
engineering, literally a priceless archive, will start to become
inaccessible. An article about what is happening is here:
<a href="https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-and-migrate-your-yahoo-groups-data-before-i-1839172243">
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-and-migrate-your-yahoo-groups-data-before-i-1839172243</a>
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We will have a few more days to try to grab the contents of the groups
off the web so we can preserve the priceless resources buried in its
history. The entire database is scheduled to be DELETED on December 14,
2019. However, 3rd parties are asking that to save the data in the FILES
sections and other data that submissions should be made by DECEMBER 1 or
else data in the groups will be lost.<br><br>
ADMINISTRATORS of the groups can port the data from their groups over by
signing up with groups.io which is a website created by the founder of
egroups, which is essentially the founding website for Yahoo Groups. Sign
up here to get your transfer request in, and do it by December 1, 2019.
There is some indication that the photos in the archives or FILES areas
may already be going bad as I write.<br><br>
If you are an administrator of this group and you can’t face this issue
because you have moved on in life or have other pressing demands and
can’t do it right away, I guess I will volunteer myself to help if you
want. What you do is to add me (or some other trusted person) to be
administrator and/or moderator of your group and the person you choose
(me if you choose) can try to handle the transfer, following the
instructions at
<a href="https://groups.io/yahootransfer">
https://groups.io/yahootransfer</a> . If we cannot track down all the
administrator of the related Vanagon groups, it sounds like the only
other option is for somebody to laboriously download the data themselves
manually, which may be an impossible task. So it is with some urgency for
us to waken the administrators who may have gone dormant. I have all the
emails going back for all related email-based groups to 1994 on my hard
drive, but probably not in a form that is practical for me to restore to
the community in a reasonable amount of time. Accordingly, there is some
urgency for us to get the administrators going on this and to notify us
publicly that they are on the case.<br><br>
If you are reading this and are of an independent sort, you can also try
to protect yourself by going to the FILES area of some or all of the
groups and try to download what is there onto your hard drive and then
maybe we can find a venue online to re-upload the content. I noticed that
there is also some other efforts to make export tools, such as on
GITHUB.<br><br>
Note that the email functionality of these groups will not stop working,
but the web interface, and content search functionality will stop working
and the FILES and PHOTOS will be deleted.<br><br>
Related affected major groups with outstanding archives include the list
below. Of these, I am administrator only of the first group, so I am
going to try to groups.io/yahootransfer process now. The others, I can
help with only by being added as a moderator.<br><br>
EZ30D<br>
Ig_syncro16<br>
limbolist<br>
lowrheiner<br>
subaru_vw_swaps<br>
Subaru-Tech<br>
subaruvanagon<br>
Syncro<br>
Syncro_T3_Australia<br>
Syncro16<br>
syncrolist<br>
SyncroSA<br>
SyncroSafari<br>
SyncroWC<br>
TDI-conversion<br>
vanagon<br>
Vanagon_Diesel<br>
Vanagon-VAG-EngConv<br>
Vanagon-Westfalia<br>
vanagonzetec<br>
VW_SYNCRO_QUEBEC<br>
vwbusclub<br>
vwbussyncro<br>
wetwesties<br>
wolfsburg_campers <br><br>
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_______________________________________________<br>
Derek
Drew
<br>
Sharon CT<br>
derekdrew@derekmail.com<br>
Email is best normally but...<br>
Mobile: 703-408-1532 (voice and texts)<br><br>
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