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
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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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Sounds fine, though it doesn't seem worth the effort.
thanks for the feedback. it turned out that i really was too lazy to do it (and since there were little comments, "i felt free to do as i pleased"). so i deleted all users with no email address and all users with no documents.
the rest is still there.
mfga.dr IOhannes
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