Re: Bug#224232: ITP: yahoo2mbox -- retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

[Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:59:33AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:15:59PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > * Package name    : yahoo2mbox
> >   Version         : 0.15
> >   Upstream Author : Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
> > * URL             : http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html
> > * License         : Public Domain
> >   Description     : retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages
> > 
> > yahoo2mbox is a small Perl script which retrieves all messages from a mailing 
> > list archive at Yahoo! Groups and stores them into a local file in MBOX format.
> 
> How is this any different than fetchyahoo?

fetchyahoo downloads mails from _your_ yahoo account. This one downloads
mail archives from any mailing list at http://yahoogroups.com/, you don't
need a Yahoo mail account.

Ganesan

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