> -----Original Message----- > From: LISTSERV give-and-take forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Stephen C. Nill > Sent: 12 November 2004 13:51 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Migrating archives from Yahoo Groups to LISTSERV > > > Colleagues, > > I'm considering migrating a discussion list from Yahoo Groups to > LISTSERV. Since Yahoo Groups does not use LISTSERV, I wonder > how to go > about migrating the archives. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? Well, I would write a Perl script to first of all retrieve all the messages in the group. The URLs for a message seem pretty straight forward, eg: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/<groupname>/message/<msgnumber>?source=1 So if you find out the beginning and end numbers, say 1 to 500, then run a loop through those. You would need to then parse each page to extract the message (the ?source=1 uses the source version which may be easier to parse and has other header lines in too). This shouldn't be too difficult, as I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) you have to worry about attachments and different types of MIME etc. Listserv's log format is very simple - each post is preceeded by a line of 73 "=" and you only need minimal headers. Regards Spencer