I am not sure about the status of the archival process. Meantime I was able to find a way to archive close to 1000 messages to MySQL database.
You can have a look at the individual messages in html format as well as the sql file here http://ps.namo-namaha.net/. I used xampp mysql bundle which had version "Server version: 5.0.27-community".
The Full Text search available with mysql seems to very good and better than the yahoo group search. I haven't had a chance to provide a php interface to it.
Based on the feedback from you guys, if the approach is viable and meets the expectation, I can work on it.
We can tag each message and search on it as well (the way gmail label the messages). Once the old messages are archived, I can configure a email id to receive new group mails and dump to the database to make it sync as soon as a message posted.
That's interesting. The archival process is yet to take off. I saw some other tool (which i have posted some time back), but yet to evaluate it. I think this seems a good tool. I try to understand both the tools and come back.
The other tool is not available on the net. I wrote a java program using htmlunit, javamail and jdbc.
if you are interested and know php, we can work on the interface. I don't have experience in php.
But before going further, I would like to know the feedback from the group on this process and design decisions. I read one user's concern about Intellectual Property, etc., I don't want to create any violation of rules, I just joined the group and saw the post and wanted to contribute.
I may need other techies cooperation as well to archive all the messages since yahoo would ban if you flood their servers and eat all the bandwidth. You have to pull 1000-2000 messages each time and wait for 2-3 hrs.