They all require the presence of a system_changelog file which at 
present does not exist on this server. That's changing tonight at 
midnight though :-)

I think Paul's suggestion is a good one. Luckily for me I have access to 
the services of a programmer who can script scanning tons of list 
changelogs for me.

Merry Christmas, Listserv people.
-aht

Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
> What about,
> Server Management;
> Server Accounting;
> Usage Statistics. 
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Russell
> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 5:20 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Server-wide usage stats
>
> On 12/24/2006 19:08, Anne Toal wrote:
>   
>> I need to run a report that will show me which lists have not have had
>>     
>
>   
>> any posts in the past two years. Can someone please tell me how to do
>>     
> that?
>   
>
> There is no built-in function to provide this type of report. There are
> probably
> several ways to attack this problem; here are two suggestions.
>
> 1. If most lists are configured to maintain changelogs, you may be able
> to
>     obtain the information you need from the changelog files for the
> individual
>     lists. You will need to retrieve a copy of the changelog file for
> each list,
>     store all of the changelog files in one location, and write a script
> to
>     extract the required information from the changelog files.
>
> 2. If most lists have archives, write a script to walk the list archives
> tree
>     and return the modification date for the most recent log file for
> each list.
>
> Both suggestions rely on configuration settings which may not be in use
> on some
> lists, so neither is guaranteed to produce a complete report.
>
>