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Offline lemonoman

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Member Purging
« on: July 18, 2005, 06:29:49 PM »
I have another generic question.

Since a lot of people on the forum come and make a username to ask a single question, there's a lot of names on the member list with 0, 1 or 2 posts...is this list ever purged for inactive users?  Or does it just keep growing?
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2005, 06:33:22 PM »
Whoever hasn't logged in within a hundred days gets purged.
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2005, 08:10:04 AM »
That means anyone who has not logged in atleast once within 3 months time will get purged?
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2005, 03:38:39 PM »
100days is slightly more than 3 calendar months, don't you think so?

inactive members are purged to help relieve the load of the internet server and forum software. after-all, this forum is a community service and btw hosting is not free. there are hardly any advertisements here, if you realise.
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2005, 09:19:50 AM »
Mitch, do you think it would be possible to leave my username un-purged if for any reason, I am unable to log on for a while in the near future, because there is a remote chance  I could be going to prison within a few months, although unlikely :(
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2005, 12:58:43 PM »
Sure, I'll try to remember.
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Re:Member Purging
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2005, 04:01:13 AM »
My guess is that if you've been a contributing member and have a few hundred posts your account won't be destroyed for a while.  I won't mess with it at least.  I will kill the bozos that have 1 or 0 posts and havne't logged in for months.
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