Perhaps an interesting compromise might be to add to config.pck a key "last_post" whose value is a dictionary of email:time 9-tuple pairs. That way, folks like Erling could write a script to go ahead and do this fu, and it might be an interesting metric for other purposes as well.
-jag On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:52 -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:50PM +0100, Erling Hellenäs wrote: > > Hi all ! > > > > It seems like some kind of automatic unsubscribe would be a nice maillist > > function. It could relieve much of the burden of keeping the member list up > > to date from the administrators. > > > > 1. There could be an inactivity warning after a configurable time of > > inactivity. If the user doesn't answer, he is automatically unsubsribed. > > 2. There could also be a possibility to send an activity check mail to all > > members. Those who doesn't answer are automatically unsubscribed. > > Personally I'd call that a big nuisance. > > As a long-time lurker on the list, who nonetheless reads it, I'd much > prefer not to be dropped off just because I have not much to say. I'd > expect this is not an uncommon situation. > > Would that fewer people with little to say, would say little, on some > other lists I have been on. > > Having administered lists of up to 15k subscribers using Mailman, I'll > also submit that unsubscribing people with legitimate and still-active > email addresses isn't much of a burden. Certainly not compared with > the burdens of > > - unsubscribing people whose email boxes are no longer there but whose > former ISPs file all identifying marks off the bounce messages, for > example, the email address of the intended recipient: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your recent mail to a user at im.clueless.com was not deliverable. > Please resend the message. > > - spam, spam, spam, and spam > > - locating and unsubscribing people who can't be troubled to unsubscribe > but who instead start submitting anonymous complaints to the likes > of SpamCop > > - locating and unsubscribing people who request to be unsubscribed > but who are not subscribers, and who are not technically savvy > enough to send you all the received headers so you could at least > hazard a guess as to the route (forwards, mailing lists subscribed > to mailing lists etc) by which the mail reached them > > The check of all members that really helps in my experience is the > monthly password reminder. It reminds a lot of people who are not > interested any longer to unsubcribe, and it elicits bounces from > inactive mailboxes, most of which are susceptible to diagnosis > by Mailman's excellent bounce handling. > -- Joshua Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator
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