"Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups"

[kane_magus]

That's pretty shitty for anyone who was ever a big user of that service.

That said, the only thing I ever used on Yahoo Groups was the Otakuwars! Mailing List. I've already sent a message to there to alert anyone who may still actually pay attention to it that it'll be gone after December 14, 2019. If I were to save anything from there, it would be, at most, my own shit, but I'm not sure if I care enough to do even that much, to be honest. :/

(EDIT)

So... just for shits and giggles, I initiated a "Groups Download" thing via the "Verizon Privacy Dashboard" (EDIT had to fix the link... I so fucking hate the fact that Facebook doesn't properly preserve URLs in posts when you copy/paste from there /EDIT) thing. It's currently doing one of those "we'll email you when your download is ready" things, so we'll see how that goes, I guess.

That said, I don't know if it's going to include the entire group, or just whatever I posted as "newkanemagus." Which would not include a single one of the posts I made from my original "kanemagus" account, given that I lost access to that years ago.

(/EDIT)

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[kane_magus]

Well, whaddayaknow... it actually worked this time. Got an email saying "download of your data is ready." Went back to the site and clicked the "Download" link there. It downloaded a 25MB zip file[1] that contains, as far as I can tell, basically everything (messages, files, photos, etc.), from both the OtakuWars! ML and the OWSF2000 ML. Not just "newkanemagus" shit, but all of it.

The only "problem" is that all of the message are in huge (10MB each, unzipped) "mbox" files that have to be opened in a mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird or whatever. Haven't really messed with that much, except to make sure that they were at least viewable, so not sure how easy (or possible) it is to extract out individual messages from that, or whatever, but at least they're there.

[1] - Which I have already uploaded to my Google Drive for anyone who wants it. Confirmed it should work without having to be logged into Google. Though it gives a "Whoops! There was a problem with the preview" error, it still provides a download link.

[owsf2000]

Downloaded it for safe keeping at the very least. I don't really have any email client installed on the comp so won't be able to open them I guess any time soon. Maybe next time I update my comp I'll consider it.