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Message 6517 - Posted: 11 Jul 2004, 14:11:17 UTC

Inactive seti members should go dormant, this will save SETI a bit of HDD space and alot of bandwith.
There are alot of members that dont do SETI anymore but may rejoin, if they go dormant there details are recorded and stored but not made into a webpage until reactivated. this could happen if they are inactive or 6 monthes or so.
The should also be a button or something which allows you to delete you area, this will help reduce inactive members.
But also if they are inactive for say 3 years an email is sent to them saying that there account will be deleted in 6 monthes. Help keep BOINCS servers, stats and website clean and reduce its stress. :D
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Message 6865 - Posted: 12 Jul 2004, 9:40:33 UTC

Absolutely!

This would greatly reduce the strain on people doing stats sites (such as myself). To get all the users I have to download a 150 MB file which unzips to 1 GB and takes forever to insert into a database. I greatly reduced the workload by ignoring users and teams with 0 total credit but it would be nice to see things cleaned up a bit on their end and I think it would help their performance a bit as well. Not to mention their bandwidth once a lot of people start doing their own stats sites/programs.

I do believe that they ignored seti-classic accounts with 0 credit since the users file now only has 3.3 million users in it (give or take 100 thousand :) and the total number of classic accounts is over 5 million. This was definitely a good move.
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Message 6896 - Posted: 12 Jul 2004, 11:02:45 UTC

some one on another post somewere said yesterday, there was about 20,000 people with credit and only 5,000 teams with credit. When there is 3.3million signed up but only 20,000 active at the moment thats alot of space that could be saved :O
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Message 6907 - Posted: 12 Jul 2004, 11:25:55 UTC

One advantage of taking every name from the old database is that when the time comes to send individual emails out we may get some of those inactive people back to crunching.

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Message 7376 - Posted: 13 Jul 2004, 12:58:37 UTC

It's not a sloution, emails are NOT in those XML file.
I agree with Toby, I don't manage those users in my website. And save a lot of HDD space in my database :
http://sahstats.boinc.fr/
http://sahstats.boinc.Fr
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Message 7598 - Posted: 14 Jul 2004, 8:30:41 UTC

Well, good news. It seems someone at Berkeley either read this post or got smart all by themselves. as of yesterday, all zero members/teams are no longer in the XML files.

Result: 1 GB file -> 6.8 MB

And there was much rejoicing! My database updates take 2 minutes now instead of 20 :)
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Message 11157 - Posted: 22 Jul 2004, 7:13:53 UTC - in response to Message 7598.  

> Well, good news. It seems someone at Berkeley either read this post or got
> smart all by themselves. as of yesterday, all zero members/teams are no
> longer in the XML files.
>
> Result: 1 GB file -> 6.8 MB
>
> And there was much rejoicing! My database updates take 2 minutes now instead
> of 20 :)
>
>
i too was happy to see this...

ttyl
Jeff (Nightowl)
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