I’m thinking of setting up a local Discourse instance and importing some Usenet groups into it, just as a matter of having a personal archive of them. I’m not interested in trying to do a two-way mirror, or even necessarily trying to keep up with current topics in those groups (though if it could b…

[image] danb35: Google Groups, though they won’t have full email addresses Yeah, that’s going to be a problem, because each message will be assigned to a new, different user. That’s why Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc) doesn’t allow that by default. You…

[image] gerhard: Yeah, that’s going to be a problem Thought it might be. Turns out slrnpull is much faster than the Google Groups download–it’s getting 20-30 messages/second, rather than over a second per message. import_mbox.sh is running right now on some of the downloaded data, and so fa…

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) February 3, 2020, 2:16pm 4

Yeah, if a group is available via NNTP then slrnpull is most likely the better alternative.

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