Oh boy. Well, I know what you're supposed to get is a bunch of mbox *part* files, generally - none of them will actually *end* with mbox as Yahoo puts numbers at the end of all of them. I wrote a tutorial on importing those. If you want anyone else to take a look at your archives and see what all was gotten, I'd be happy to do that, just let me know. But I'd try following the instructions in that tutorial first and see what you get.
We can use a volunteer as long as they can read and follow directions! (Lol, you'd think that wouldn't be too hard, but I could tell some tales…) It's really very simple - we have you create an email account (and we'll tell you where), create a Yahoo ID, email us the info on *both*, go pick out a tab on a Google spreadsheet, join all the groups on that tab (load groups of pages with a bulk URL opener and do the whole captcha thing over and over), and then tell us when you're done. The specifics of how/where/all that are in a doc which we can link you, and we're happy to give further guidance if necessary, but you'll generally catch on pretty fast. Feel free to join the Discord (I think the current invite is https://discord.gg/DyCNddf which should be good for ever unless they delete it) and volunteer your time. We would LOVE the assistance - the more people we have volunteering who can complete even just one tab, the more groups—and fandoms—we can save.
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Date: 2020-01-22 10:16 pm (UTC)We can use a volunteer as long as they can read and follow directions! (Lol, you'd think that wouldn't be too hard, but I could tell some tales…) It's really very simple - we have you create an email account (and we'll tell you where), create a Yahoo ID, email us the info on *both*, go pick out a tab on a Google spreadsheet, join all the groups on that tab (load groups of pages with a bulk URL opener and do the whole captcha thing over and over), and then tell us when you're done. The specifics of how/where/all that are in a doc which we can link you, and we're happy to give further guidance if necessary, but you'll generally catch on pretty fast. Feel free to join the Discord (I think the current invite is https://discord.gg/DyCNddf which should be good for ever unless they delete it) and volunteer your time. We would LOVE the assistance - the more people we have volunteering who can complete even just one tab, the more groups—and fandoms—we can save.