[Pdweb] cleaning up puredata.info

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds fine, though it doesn't seem worth the effort.

.hc

On Sep 4, 2006, at 4:26 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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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