Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

Re:Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups by lucb1e on Sunday December 08, 2019 @07:04PM (#21739408)

And my new yahoo account can't join any groups :/

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Re:Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups by username4567 on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:43AM (#21740842)

I had this. Once I added a backup email address, it worked. I found this by trial and error. It seems that Yahoo doesn't consider its email addresses to be valid.

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Re:Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups by lucb1e on Monday December 09, 2019 @08:31AM (#21742420)

Did you see the sibling comment to yours, posted 7 hours earlier? Is that not a different issue?

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Re:Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups by jstanley on Sunday December 08, 2019 @07:06PM (#21739419)

What error do you get? If it's:

> Your email address is not linked to a Yahoo ID. To join this group, you need to link your email address to a Yahoo account.

Then you need to go into "Account security" and link an email address with the account. I don't know why the instructions don't tell you this.

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Re:Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups by lucb1e on Sunday December 08, 2019 @07:15PM (#21739465)

Sorry, got sidetracked, wanted to edit in the issue link. It's this issue: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner/issues/1...

Thanks for the suggestion though, I saw that thread about linking a fallback email address as well but that seems to be a different thing.

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