On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:39:45 +0000, "Dye, Jan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a way to get a list of lists with their owners, that have had no postings for a certain time period? We are using listserv 15.5. I don't really see a way to do it in the GUI, but maybe I'm missing something. I'm pretty new to listserv administration.

This question comes up somewhat often.  

Here are some things you can do now (or check they are already done) that will
help you answer this question in the future.

Activate the System Changelog

 in site.cfg:  SYSTEM_CHANGELOG=YEARLY or SYSTEM_CHANGELOG=1
 in go.user:   export SYSTEM_CHANGELOG="YEARLY" or export SYSTEM_CHANGELOG=1

This gives you a (yearly) listing of all messages posted to all lists, even if
the list has no message archives.  
 Server Administration > Server Reports > Server Activity Reports
You can sort this by LISTNAME and have LISTSERV total things for you.  This
makes it very easy to find low/no traffic lists.


Activate the List-Level (per list) Changelog

 in each List Config:  Change-Log= Yes, Yearly

(best if you build this into your list creation template)
This gives you per-list activity of all kinds (posts, subs, unsubs, autodels,
etc.)
 List Management > List Reports > List Activity Reports

Again you can select specific items and have LISTSERV total things for you.
This makes it very easy to verify low/no activity lists, even if the list has
no message archives.

Unfortunately, both of these reports start from the time you configure them so
they don't/can't look into the past.  But turn them on now so you will be able
to answer this in the future.  

Note: both changelogs are setable to shorter time periods (monthly, daily) but
these are useless, because only the current changelog file is available in the
WWW interface. Past time periods are not.  You can of course collect these
changelog files and analyze them manually outside of LISTSERV, but why work
harder than you need to?

The only other source of this kind of information is the main LISTSERV log
file, which over a year will be 365 files of many, many MB in size.  This will
require some kind of programmatic analysis as the scope of the data is beyond
manual work. 

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