Hi, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Yes, we do that at the jabber.org service.
Since you use ODBC and ejabberd, I also like to point out EJAB-1031 [1]. This is a bug that causes ejabberdctl to delete accounts based on usage-information from the mnesia database, even if you use mod_last_odbc. > At jabber.org we allow re-registration. However, you raise some good > points about the practice. My major concern is that if we kept accounts > forever, we would have a lot more accounts (most of them idle) than we > have now. Before we started removing idle accounts, our database was > growing quite fast, whereas now it grows much more slowly (we have about > 330,000 accounts). This was also my major consideration. Also consider that soon all "good" usernames are taken. Try getting <yourname>@gmail.com for example. I did a little investigation and gmail definitely does not allow reregistration, on yahoo mail I found conflicting information, but they seem to at least block usernames for some time. > Another issue is clean deletion: sending unsubscribes from the old > account to the entities in the roster, removing the vCard, etc. I don't > know if any software makes this easy or even possible. At least ejabberd offers a command for this. If some data remains I (and I am sure Badlop to) would consider this a bug. greetings, Mati [1] https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1031 -- I only read plain text mail! I prefer pgp|gpg signed & encrypted mails!
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