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  • 26-06-2002 11:48am
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    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭


    boards.ie has thousands of members.

    how many of them are actually active?

    the amount of people on the members list with no posts gives the list an inflated figure.

    perhaps those who registered, say, a year ago or more, with no posts, could be sent an email asking them would they like their account to be deleted or would they like to keep their account.

    those who don't reply within 20 days get their account automatically deleted.
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    Keeks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    And what purpose would this serve?


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    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    t'would give a better picture of how many members there really are.

    would you count as a member somebody who registered in jan 2000 and hasn't posted to the site at all?


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    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    I think what Keeks means is that we don't actually care, and that the effort required to send a recieve 8000 e-mails even using scripts and database shennanigans, is too much to worth bothering about.

    Sure I've got an account with a certain ISP that I stopped paying for 4 years ago that still works. Why doesn't the ISP stop my access? Because it doesn't care.


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    Gavin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    I'd agree with klong on that one actually. It could be setupto be completely automated and would tidy things a lot and paint a preciser picture of boards's popularity.

    Also, it would free up names etc that other might want...

    Gav


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    Keeks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    And what about the people who have bloked their addy address? It pointless really.

    It would be a lot easier to add a script to monitor users activity, rather than finding out who is not actvie and deleting the account.

    Anyway from what i can remember there is an (unoffical?) policy here of not deleting accounts.


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