Topic: Yahoogroups
Downloading Message Archives
Backstreet Downloader is an offline browser for downloading any website or part of a website to your computer. You can choose to download as html pages (lots of disk space) or as compressed .zip files. You will have to set your group's archive to "Public" temporarily while it's downloading. It works at Topica as well.
PG Offline is designed more specifically for Yahoogroups, it's $15.00 shareware also with a 30 day trial. One listowner posted this on EL-M:
I believe you can control it but it will try to get each message from the beginning to the last, by default. Then, later, you can just retrieve "new" messages.
I discovered that it stores the full newslist as an access data base -- and you can export to that. Probably the biggest drawback so far that I've seen is that it just copies what was in the message -- including all the html. It would be nice if one could strip that out (optionally).
It has some statistics built and and was pretty fast for my 2,000 or so messages in one group. Shows how many times a particular user has sent a message.
So far, I'm reasonably pleased with it for an archive of messages (before Yahoo removes them.....)
Thanks to Linda Lawrie for that review.
Last updated on January 3, 2004 07:36 PM