@cas206 turned over the data that was exportable from the Yahoo group (thank you cas206!) and we now have approximately 5,000 topics and 20,000 replies in this forum, along with most of the 1,700 users.
However, there are some caveats!
1. The email posts have a *ton* of garbage in them, html tags, advertising, Yahoo tags, etc. I removed most of that but in some cases the baby may have exited with the bathwater. If you run across that, PM me with the address of the thread, the post number, and what is missing.
2. The Yahoo data did not include email addresses (absurd) and passwords (expected). This means the users from the Yahoo group are little more than placeholders. If you wish to activate your old user please PM me with the Yahoo username (as it appears here... it may be slightly different than it was on Yahoo) and your email address. I will update the email then you can go through the "Forgot Password" function and reset it. But there's no requirement to do that, you can certainly make a new registration here.
3. There's still a bit of fine tuning to do on some of the content so some small improvements will show up over the next week or so.
Also, if you know other sailors who were stranded with Yahoo Groups let them know we now have a body of code to import their data.
So, welcome!
However, there are some caveats!
1. The email posts have a *ton* of garbage in them, html tags, advertising, Yahoo tags, etc. I removed most of that but in some cases the baby may have exited with the bathwater. If you run across that, PM me with the address of the thread, the post number, and what is missing.
2. The Yahoo data did not include email addresses (absurd) and passwords (expected). This means the users from the Yahoo group are little more than placeholders. If you wish to activate your old user please PM me with the Yahoo username (as it appears here... it may be slightly different than it was on Yahoo) and your email address. I will update the email then you can go through the "Forgot Password" function and reset it. But there's no requirement to do that, you can certainly make a new registration here.
3. There's still a bit of fine tuning to do on some of the content so some small improvements will show up over the next week or so.
Also, if you know other sailors who were stranded with Yahoo Groups let them know we now have a body of code to import their data.
So, welcome!