Improving the Membership List
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 9:57 am
During the migration process of your YahooGroup into your new forum, we concentrated heavily on being able to fully restore your message archives while the membership list was seen as just a transfer from the current YahooGroup. In the end, the current Members list is mainly made up of those that had actually posted. As many members had used more than one email address, over the years, this meant that the messages were then assigned to the email addresses used to post them. Since then, I have been trying to merge the messages into one account for each member.
As this turned out to be a massive task, we are now looking into improving the migration task for the members list and rebuilding the members list again. In order to make this possible, I have been working on an excel table of the members found on the current YahooGroup cross-referenced with the email addresses used when the messages were posted. The most difficult aspect is simply working out all the email addresses each member used.
After working on the table for some time, I have now sent it to your original moderator Soroush to complete the associations, as he knows you all much better than I do. It is now his job to look at each email address that we were unable to associate automatically, and associate it with a current member account. If this is not possible, because the member unsubscribed before the YahooGroup went offline, then a new account will be created for the respective archived posts.
Once that list has been completed, he will send me back the list and we will then rebuild the members list so that everyone can then properly join in on the forum.
Please bare with us while this important work is being completed. Feel free to continue to use the forum and post new messages while we work in the background to properly restore your members list.
There is one more improvement worth mentioning. When we originally restored the messages, links in the messages were not clickable due to a minor oversight. That has now been rectified and you should now be able to click on any links found in the respective posts.
As this turned out to be a massive task, we are now looking into improving the migration task for the members list and rebuilding the members list again. In order to make this possible, I have been working on an excel table of the members found on the current YahooGroup cross-referenced with the email addresses used when the messages were posted. The most difficult aspect is simply working out all the email addresses each member used.
After working on the table for some time, I have now sent it to your original moderator Soroush to complete the associations, as he knows you all much better than I do. It is now his job to look at each email address that we were unable to associate automatically, and associate it with a current member account. If this is not possible, because the member unsubscribed before the YahooGroup went offline, then a new account will be created for the respective archived posts.
Once that list has been completed, he will send me back the list and we will then rebuild the members list so that everyone can then properly join in on the forum.
Please bare with us while this important work is being completed. Feel free to continue to use the forum and post new messages while we work in the background to properly restore your members list.
There is one more improvement worth mentioning. When we originally restored the messages, links in the messages were not clickable due to a minor oversight. That has now been rectified and you should now be able to click on any links found in the respective posts.