> I also asked for and got one of these files. Mine took something like > 30 > hours, and gave me a 584 MB .zip file. I tried it using a Windows 10 > machine, and it consists of directories, each with the name of a group > I'm > subscribed to. Opening each directory, there are one or more .zip > files > in it; for example, files.zip, links.zip, and messages.zip are in one > I'm > looking at now. files.zip contains the files without further > complication, with their directory structure from Yahoo maintained. > links.zip contains .url files. messages.zip contains files of the > format > 1959542.mbox.00001, 1959542.mbox.00002, 1959542.mbox.00003, etc. These > seem to be 10 MB (uncompressed) chunks of the concatenated messages, in > plaintext format as email messages. I haven't tried feeding them to > something like Pine, but it would appear to be compatible. Email > addresses appear to be intact, with the exception of one group I looked > at > with messages back into 1999 (perhaps they started on egroups or > something). The one thing that does not appear to be there is photos, > unless they were stored as "files." > > Overall, it's exactly what I would have hoped to get, with the > exception > of the photos.
I had the same experience, although mine was much smaller (only one group, not very active and not with many files). Overall very painless. -All
