Dragaera

Useful Stuff

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Sun Oct 6 01:28:23 PDT 2002

Perhaps I said the wrong thing?  Did I err?

Anyway, while waiting for *someone* to say something, I thought I'd
mention a couple of useful utilities I found for grabbing stuff from
Yahoo's site.

If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, you are probably aware that Yahoo
no longer allows free POP3 access to said account.  Well, guess what?
You don't need to put up with Yahoo's nonsense; you can just download
all of your web e-mail to an mbox-format file:

   http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/

In addition, you might want to access Yahoo's groups.  Some of the
groups (like the stevenbrust group, to make this slightly on-topic)
require yahoo membership to access the archives, while some are
anonymous.  Either way, if you want to pull down all of the group's
messages to an mbox-format file, you can:

  http://parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html

If the stevenbrust list moderator is on this list as well, perhaps he
or she could change the yahoo group so that the archives could be
accessed anonymously?  There were a few threads that were moderately
amusing.

Hmm.  Perhaps a copy of the stevenbrust yahoo group archives (cleaned
up a bit, since they are full of the SPAM that yahoo attaches to all
outgoing messages) could be archived on dragaera.info as well?  Just a
thought...