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Reocities Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo!
http://www.reocities.com/newhome/openletter.html

how the bloody hell do you archive stuff from yahoo mail efficiently?

my last attempt involved dropping the stuff into one humongous text file, delineated with loads of
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seperators and the full headers … which it no longer lets you display.

Is there a crawler for it?

suffice to say yahoo are ever more pissing me off, having been a user of their email service for a solid 15 years now (and actually was quite pleased when they merged with geocities – who i signed up for on almost the same day – because it seemed like a good idea for future stability)… and they’ve already killed an account of mine for not being accessed frequently enough (!!! who are they, hotmail?) with no warning. Got a couple of sites on there, and I know of some good other ones that are useful, or artistically interesting, that are basically abandoned or the owner doesn’t respond to email any more.

Me and my terabyte disc (and a currently fairly neglected 10mbit connection – can you say “download an entire 15mb user area in 12 seconds”?) will probably be seeing you on EFNet fairly soon. Got a complex weekend to get thru first but I’ll keep this page tabbed.

… there’s usually some geocities link pops up on page 12 of the google results, quietly and humbly presenting that little tidbit of data that I needed, that some joe random needed before and couldn’t find, and had to go to the trouble of personally researching, and put on their free geo page for the world to see.

Somehow I can’t see that working with MySpace.

Me, my terabyte drive and a pile of DVDRs will see you on EFNet sometime after this weekend’s chaotic shenanigans are done, I feel. I have a 10mbit internet connection that’s not really doing anything since my brother left home. It smells to me now like “could potentially download a chock-full Geo account every 15 seconds”

I worked really hard to put it together. I was on a WebTv and had to learn to do all my own coding. Hours and hours of looking it up, notebook after notebook writing it down and learning to turn it into something that was mine.

While I do have a section for other poetry I like, the site was a place to share what I wrote. Files of graphics I made, awards I won for the site and other things, memories behind it all.

I tell you this because I want you to know just how much I appreciate what you are doing. The thought of doing my own site is daunting to me, I can’t imagine trying to take on what you have.

Best of luck to you and I am sorry that there isn’t something that I can do to help you.

Jason,
Let us know if we can help.