"Nelson R. Pardee" wrote: > > The topic of implementing a process of automatically or manually deleting lists > that have reached an assigned expiration date was discussed on this list a few > years ago. Part of the discussion involved a related process for owners to renew > their lists. Based on the earlier discussion, there appeared to be a variety of > mechanisms used at various sites. Some used special naming conventions that > included an expiration date and others used techniques for detecting unused > lists (no subscriptions, no messages, etc.). At our site, we want to implement a > renewal process to eliminate unwanted, inactive and orphaned lists. We are still > on 1.8d (Win NT), and I was wondering if there is anything new in 1.8e that > would support this process. Any other new ideas related to this issue? The way I do it is I have a script that browses the changelogs for all the lists and detect ones that have had no activity in 2002. No subscribes or posts. Was pretty easy to do. Then I have it move those lists to an archive directory and zip 'em up. Regards, Al -- Al Iverson -- [log in to unmask] -- Minneapolis, Minnesota My pockets hurt. http://www.spamresource.com/ Support Jazz in Minnesota! -- http://www.mnjazz.com/ All opinions are mine alone unless I state otherwise.