[MLB-WIRELESS] Nodedb Cull

[Tyson.Clugg at csiro.au]

How about this:
* Time stamp each node with the last time edited, if not known, seed with
today.
* Update time stamps when people log into nodes.
* Wait for a set period of "inactive" time (3 months?).
* Send a reminder e-mail to nodes that have not been edited in the set time
period, warning them that their node will be removed if they do not log in
within a "grace" period (1 week?).
* Remove nodes that have not been edited in the set time period (3 months +
1 week?).

I think this is suitable, it should cull unused/unwanted nodes, while
allowing people the chance to save their node from inappropriate culling.
It also has a nice side effect - people must log into their node
periodically (every 3 months?), and hence remember to update their details
when they log in.  The details stay reasonably up to date.

My suggestions for the "inactive" time (3 months) and the "grace" period (1
week) are simply suggestions...

Cheers,
Tyson.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lkhoo at csc.com.au [mailto:lkhoo at csc.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2002 1:15 PM
> To: melbourne wireless
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Nodedb Cull
> 
> 
> Matt,
> 
> I'm not sure how you could do this without culling actual 
> interested people
> but possibly send email to all the addresses (as listed in 
> the nodeDB) and
> get them to reply with a simple subject line reply with their 
> node name in
> it if they want the info kept? After some length of time collate these
> responses and then delete the others?
> I found it took myself quite a while to get good co-ords from 
> the location
> db application and I don't really want to do it again. hmm, 
> maybe I should
> write them down while I think of it :)
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> 
> Lucas
> 
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> 
> 
> I was wondering if it is worth doing a node cull  because I 
> suspect there
> are a lot of people on the list who are not interested  
> anymore but have
> not removed there details.  Why do I say this ??   Cause all 
> the people
> that appear to be near me I have emailed and havnt got one  
> response and
> would like to find someone to connect to.
> 
> Matt.
> 
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