Joao, Thanks so much for sharing this link. Unfortunately the zip (windows) program download link (yahoo2mbox.pl.zip) leads to a 404 cul de sac. I've alerted the site maintainer of the error. I'm working with several USENET and YAHOO group message sets, looking at the development of online community in relation to specific belief sets. I'd enjoy hearing how you conduct your research, i.e. operationalize your data, what software you use, variables and their measures, your underlying logic of presentation, and any other facets. Feel free to write me personally or address the group, as I'm sure there are many others seeking shared knowledge in this budding exploratory research field. - Kurt Reymers University at Buffalo, PhD Candidate reymers@buffalo.edu SUNY Morrisville, Webmaster reymerke@morrisville.edu -----Original Message----- From: jvc@mit.edu Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:25:23 -0400 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] research on yahoo groups Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Hi Everyone, I am doing research on a newsgroup hosted by yahoo groups that has more than 10 000 messages. Because it's based on "yahoo groups" there is no easy way to get all the messages in a file (as one could do for a USENET group). After much toil, I found a program that does it. Here's the link http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html Hope this is useful Joao