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