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Yahoo! groups is closing. There were several historically important mailing lists on there:
== YahooTuningGroupsUltimateBackup ==
''Yahoo! groups'' were closed. There were several historically important mailing lists on there:


* tuning (aka "The Tuning List")
* tuning (aka "The Tuning List")
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* metatuning
* metatuning


Fortunately, we have already archived these groups: messages, files, etc. We now have to determine a strategy to make the archives available (preferably in searchable format, etc).
Fortunately, we have already archived these groups: messages, files, etc. They have been archived at https://archive.org/details/YahooTuningGroupsUltimateBackup.


Unfortunately, Yahoo! has given us only a few short days to make any announcements to the list before they make everything read-only. It will certainly take us longer than this to get everything together.
=== Viewing interface ===


As a result, we would like to link everyone to this "[[YahooTuningListArchival]]" article on the Xen Wiki at http://en.xen.wiki/w/YahooTuningListArchival. We will post updates to this article as we determine a strategy to archive and rehost these groups.
An interface to look at the messages has been made available at https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/, thanks to [[Douglas Blumeyer]] with guidance from [[Dave Keenan]]. The link to the Facebook post announcing this is [https://www.facebook.com/groups/497105067092502/permalink/1852177861585209/ here], and has been archived below:


When we have things together, we will post a link to the new group location on this article. We will also send a message to the mailing lists once the new group location is determined.
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Thank you and "stay tuned!"
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I have made some archived microtonal mailing lists available to browse online here: https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/
 
Recently I shared on Facebook that I had taken a backup of them (https://archive.org/details/YahooTuningGroupsUltimateBackup) and made them more easily searchable by uploading them to GitHub (https://github.com/YahooTuningGroupsUltimateBackup/YahooTuningGroupsUltimateBackup). I have taken it another step further now by parsing the content, sorting it into topic threads, and linking up attachments (e.g. https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_86920 has a working attachment).
 
I have also corrected internal links so that they link to the appropriate message, and patched a couple of sites that moved. If you notice any other big swath of broken links I could easily patch, please let me know.
 
There's no search at the moment so you may have to cross-reference the GitHub repo for now until Google indexes it and you can search for things within using the Google query "site:yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io what I'm looking for".
 
Of course it's not much to look at, but it's a heck of a lot nicer than trudging through JSON blobs of unencoded HTML...
 
A handful of the topics were missing messages. Perhaps they were deleted. And I noticed a couple other Yahoo groups were linked out and appeared to be microtonal in nature ("PracticalMicrotonality", and "Posttonality") to but I didn't have backups for these ones. I hope they weren't lost forever in this recent Verizon acquisition fiasco.
 
Anyway, these old mailing lists are a treasure trove of ideas and history. I hope everyone enjoys this increased access to the information. If anyone has any concerns about me sharing the material in this way, please let me know.
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== Other backups ==
ArchiveTeam also got backups of these tuning-related groups, also hosted on Archive.org:
 
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2017-02-11T09-54-06Z-aa0083 MakeMicroMusic]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2017-01-18T15-34-19Z-b2f8de metatuning]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2015-10-13T15-52-21Z-d89ezp oddmusic] [[https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2015-10-13T05-14-32Z-4u8nhe 2]]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2016-01-05T11-23-46Z-ny7hc2 TUNING]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2017-01-19T06-05-41Z-70993b tuning-math]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2018-01-27T15-36-56Z-b132d4 tuning-math-files]
* [https://archive.org/details/yahoo-groups-2017-04-04T05-42-28Z-397734 viennese_tuning]
 
[[User:ResonantFrequencies]] also made (partial?) backups of these groups, in two different formats (which are not published anywhere, but could be):
 
* experimusic [getmydata, yahoo-group-archiver]
* harmonic_entropy [getmydata]
* MakeMicroMusic [getmydata]
* metatuning [getmydata]
* musictheory [getmydata]
* oddmusic [getmydata]
* PostTonality [getmydata]
* TUNING [getmydata, yahoo-group-archiver]
* tuning-math [getmydata, yahoo-group-archiver]
* Tuning2  [getmydata, yahoo-group-archiver]
 
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