I was digging around in my personal way-back machine for where discussion about myname@ openoffice.org had occurred. Something struck me about the magic 500,000 number.
When IDs are issued, even if later de-activated, the ID is usually retained to avoid accidental re-issue of it to a different person. This seems to be one of those mystery protocols honored by providers of e-mail services and account registrations. (I have had to be orcmid1, orcmid2 or orcmid-other on some sites because I forgot my earlier password or some other quirk prevented my being recognized as the rockstar formerly known as orcmid. Also, some systems, such as AOL and evidently Facebook as well, keep account names forever just in case someone wants theirs back. So my 1978 CompuServe ID is still available if I want it [;<) I don't know if that is a factor in the size of the current list at Oracle. If it is true that most of those are inactive and known to be inactive, considering migration of the active ones alone becomes more feasible. It is not necessary for us to know about inactive ones because there's no intention to accept new requests. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for some good news from Oracle folks who might know. How many *active* still-usable myname@ openoffice.org accounts are there and is it easy to tell which they are? At the bottom of this post, I have attached two older ooo-dev posts that seem to have important hints about that. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 10:06 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Shut-down of all name@ openoffice.org e-mail addresses [ ... ] I'm looking for what's best for the project, Dennis. If someone was using an openoffice.org address for reporting defects to the project, and the only way to contact them is through that address, then the project benefits if we can ensure our ability to contact them. if they were using their openoffice.org address for other things, unrelated to the project, then that is not our concern. AOOo is not the ISP to the world. In any case, I suggest we pick a drop dead date, say in 2 weeks time. If no one has come up with a better plan at that point, then we go ahead with notifications via the addresses that are publicly available, via BZ, etc., as well as prominent notifications on the website and mailing list. We should risk dropping all of the users without notification, and at very short notice, if we do nothing but hold out for the unlikely perfect solution. The perfect is the enemy of the good, etc. [ ... ] -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 09:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OOO Test Bugzilla instance On 27/08/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: > That these are used to login to www, extensions, templates, and bugzilla? > Anything else? Besides what Pavel already pointed out, they are used on QATrack too. > And are these the 455,422 people on http://openoffice.org/people? Yes, but I honestly don't know if accounts listed there are the "active" ones or all. Accounts were purged around February 2011 and only "active" ones were kept, for the following definition of "active": the password had been used to authenticate to the OpenOffice.org site in the previous 18 months. I don't know what happened to the "inactive" accounts, but it should be reasonable that BugZilla still allows them to preserve bugs history. And the list shown there might or might not include the "inactive" accounts. As for passwords, all passwords were reset around February 2011 with the Kenai migration and all "active" users were e-mailed a new password or a password reset link. -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 07:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Top level question on [email protected] account migration Shane Curcuru wrote: > - Does anyone know roughly how many oo.o email addresses are currently > active? No, but I already wrote on this list that in March 2011 Stefan Taxhet deleted most accounts and left active only those who had been used (i.e., login on the OOo site) in the latest 18 months. This should leave only a few hundreds accounts, but this is just my estimate. > - Do you get full mailbox support on the oo.o server currently, or are > they just forwarding addresses? Only forwarding address. Regards, Andrea.
