[Pdweb] cleaning up puredata.info

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Mon Sep 4 10:26:57 CEST 2006


hi all.

i am trying to clean up the userdatabase of puredata.info, in order to 
make a transition to ldap-based authentication (for instance, if we ever 
  wanted to migrate the pd-cvs to a puredata.info based svn) more easy.

currently, there are 1709 users registered in the portal.

i would like to get rid of "fake" users (users who never ever created 
any content and who have had their account for more than a certain 
"grace period");

the following users don't even have en email-address (i don't know how 
they got past the join-procedure), and haven't created anything (apart 
from the default home-page which was automatically created when they 
first logged in):
Gleetchplug, Valery, gakuse, gloun, lalo, med, puma, yvds (Yvan Vander 
Sanden)

is it ok for everybody, if i just delete them? (since i cannot even 
contact them)

how should i deal with those others? send out an email to ask them to do 
something with their account within (e.g.) 2 weeks?
or just delete anybody who has not contributed something for years 
(chances are high that these people don't even know their passwords 
anymore; and i don't really want to answer hundreds of emails of people 
who never cared for their accounts but suddenly feel like they might be 
"losing" something)

after all, everybody could recreate their account (all of their content 
would be recreated too ;-))

what do you think?

mfg.asd.r
IOhannes



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