Subj : Elist maintanence program
To   : Vincent Coen
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Mar 22 2020 09:58:44

  Re: Elist maintanence program
  By: Vincent Coen to All on Sat Mar 21 2020 20:17:13


 VC> At the moment the system is set to issue expiry Warnings after six
 VC> months and is pre programmed to do so on every WARN run which is
 VC> set to be every month but this means that a echo will not get
 VC> deleted until month 11 after the date of the last update.

 VC> Strikes me as some what too long, so is it reasonable to do it
 VC> weekly which will give 4+ weeks after the first warning is is
 VC> that short ?

something to think about regarding deletions and purges:

there are/were some people that gamed the system and would attempt to hijack 
echo listings after they were marked for deletion and before they were actually 
deleted... they hoped to get their mod upd in place as soon after the actual 
deletion happened and before the moderator got their update in... this is one 
of the reasons why, in the past, the actual purge was run manually instead of 
being automated... for one thing, this allowed the list keeper to run the 
updates before the purge... plus with the purge being done randomly on an 
unknown not broadcast schedule, it made it a lot harder for someone to game the 
system and hijack an echo's listing...


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