009-GROUP on Yahoo.

[Graeme Dunbar]

Well, I managed to recover my Yahoo ID and had a quick look round the 009 group. There are more photos than I remember and some might be worth saving. The trouble is that with just a short title and the name or ID of the person who posted them many are of curiosity value only. I did find the track photos though; they were by Nigel Lawson; but they are nothing that could not be recreated and at much higher resolution.

The files section is quite interesting (people seemed to put photos and documents in file folders to overcome the limitations of a flat image area). I've not explored a lot, but I think there is some material that is worth preserving. In particular, Dave Grassing posted a number of images of his and Midge's work. Sadly, some of it is just a link to the now defunct web site but so far I found a few images of Foss Landing.

There is only 43 Mb of files (not sure how big the image area is) so it is not a lot to archive.

I've had a look at a couple of Yahoo Group downloaders; a bit of a problem here; the producers generally want money for something that runs on obsolete versions of Windows.

[Jeff Schumaker]

How does one find said group? I have tried searching for it on Yahoo Groups, but have been unsuccessful. I would like to take a look at it, before it is shut down.

Jeff S.

[Graeme Dunbar]

How does one find said group? I have tried searching for it on Yahoo Groups, but have been unsuccessful. I would like to take a look at it, before it is shut down.

Jeff S.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/009-GROUP/info

Almost the only things posted in the last six years are the automatic monthly terms and conditions messages.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Many thanks, Graeme.

Jeff S.

[Graeme Dunbar]

I found software to archive the Yahoo group - PG Offline - and downloaded what I could.

It would appear that all messages prior to the 009 Society withdrawing its official support (2008 AGM) have been deleted or are otherwise unavailable as the earliest readable message on the Yahoo group is #8910, 16th April 2008, though the table of message statistics shows messages going back to October 1999. Clicking on any month prior to April 2008 in Yahoo takes me to message #8910.

The date of the first readable message and the AGM decision would appear to be more than a coincidence as I can see earlier messages from more prolific Yahoo groups.

Archiving what I could and saving messages in as many formats as PG Offline allows (from plain text to HTML and SQL and its own format) has given me a folder of under 100 MiB, though that is only the most recent ~1700 messages since 2008 (#8910 to #10599).

Whether this information or the downloaded messages, files, pictures and links is of any use is another matter.

My memory failed me in one respect though. The photos in the current Yahoo view appear to be a flat list (to me anyway), but they are split into folders when downloaded. There is something in the back of my mind about limited image picture storage in Yahoo in days past which would be one reason why people uploaded photos to the files area.