Joseph:

There is software that extracts out Yahoo Group messages into mbox 
format, which can then be read by a number of other software programs:

http://www.tt-solutions.com/en/products/yahoo2mbox/

I think there are also commercial (need to buy software) solutions that 
may do the same.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
>
> 
> I have a concern and was hoping some of the more tech savy members of 
> the group could help me with. I don't know how to "save" the message 
> archives to another location short of opening each individual message 
> and copying and pasting them into another document. I don't want to 
do 
> that and would like to know if anyone has any ideas on how to save 
them 
> in a faster fluent procedure?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> joseph
>