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Author Topic: the old yahoo forum  (Read 3481 times)

Waverley

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« on: June 12, 2005, 09:07:36 PM »
Hi Eddy and all

I see from PJ's introduction that the old Yahoo group forum and posts still exist.   Is it possible for mere mortals like myself (who was never a member of the original group) to access it - there must be some fascinating stuff in there.

Regards

David Milne

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2005, 02:41:28 AM »
David, and others...

It's impossible to give access to the old Yahoo forum, but I've made a small start in copying the messages across to our new site - You'll see the new message area at the bottom of the forum page.

You CANNOT post any new messages, OR reply to messages in that area.  It's there purely as a source of reference.

Because I have to copy each and every message manually from the old Yahoo group, this is going to take me a long time, but hopefully I will get to the end eventually!

I won't be copying every message, as a lot of them were questions about accessing the Yahoo group, or automated file announcements etc etc, none of which have any relevance to this site....
~ Never, ever, argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience ~

Waverley

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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2005, 05:01:34 AM »
Hi Eddy

Manually copying all those messaegs will take you a year and a day!.  Didn't mean to lay that burden on you.

But thanks for doing it - I promise to read every one.

Regards

David

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2005, 05:26:00 AM »
No problem David - it will take a long time, but sooner or later Yahoo will pull the plug on the old Paddleducks group because of lack of activity, so it needed doing anyway.... It would be a crying shame to lose all that info!
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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2005, 09:11:01 PM »
There ya go - I've copied almost 300 messages across from the old Yahoo group, so that should give a bit of reading material that may give some inspiration....

300 messages is about 10% of what I have to copy, so it's going to take a while yet to get it all transfered over!
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