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Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:39:57 -0400
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At 13:29 08/18/2003 Monday, John Lyon wrote:
 >
 >> If I knew when the user set themselves to NOMAIL I might be able to make
 >> some sort of judgement along the lines of "if they have been on NOMAIL more
 >> than 1 month set them to MAIL" - that way, if their address was no longer
 >> valid they would get removed by the autodelete mechanism.. otherwise they
 >> might have their > q ***GUI*** care-tbi with nomail for *@*ed that they
 >are on that mailing list and
 >> either take active part again or unsubscribe themselves.
 >>
 >> I could possibly write a script that parses the Listserv logs, for the past
 >> 2½ years we've run the service, looking for SET NOMAIL or SET MAIL lines in
 >> an attempt to build up a database of users still on NOMAIL and for how
 >> long. However, that could be quite fiddly, may only be partly possible as
 >> Listserv will chop log lines over a certain length, and would take along
 >> time to run over several gigabytes of logs.

Don't forget that some individuals have multiple subscriptions (multiple 
mail accounts) and could be set to NOMAIL.  Additionally, it is quite 
valid for folks to be subscribed to PRIVATE lists and yet read/post to 
the list via a web interface.

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