Excellent point... Maybe it's not so bad having stagnant accounts after
all... :) Maybe I'll just go back to Mr. Dorman's referenced KB article for
the DOS mod dates.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yuri Levenfeld
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stagnant accounts
Hm... this wouldn't work for me, though. Since I am dealing with users on a
daily basis I can safely say that you may not expect a lot of cooperation
from them. Whenever I send any request by broadcast I usually get no more
than 50% responses. Others simply choose to ignore what I say to them. In
this situation, should I ever send broadcst message to my users to identify
dead e-mail accounts I would estimate that I get reply from about 500
people, another 400-500 people would simply discard my message and then
raise hell when I kill their accounts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Stagnant accounts
> Depending on internal political temperatures, that may be the best
direction
> for us, as well...
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan C. LaMarre
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Stagnant accounts
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>
> We use a really low tech approach. We send out a reply-or-else message
once
> a year to all the non-staff/faculty/current student accounts (read:
alumni).
> If they do not reply in 60 days, they are deleted. Lengthy, but simple.
>
> Ryan LaMarre
> Computer Support Specialist
> Unity College
> Unity, ME 04988
> (207) 948-3131 x298
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yuri Levenfeld
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stagnant accounts
>
>
> true.
>
> This works only if customers have real mail clients like Outlook.
>
> Looks like in the case of pure Web Messaging use there is no way to trace
> dormant accounts. Timestamp on MBX file in user directory obviously
changes
> with every new incoming e-mail, but this doesn't answer the question
whether
> the account owner checks his e-mail or not.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stagnant accounts
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>
> > > Of course, if file doesn't exist at all in user mailbox, that means
> > > that account has never been used.
> >
> > ... or they use web messaging, which doesn't have a lastlog.in file.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Scott
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