Hello,

ok - so to sum it all up:

• Something has to be done about it
• definition of a "zombie" is: loged in only once, homepage length 0, no writeups
• after n months of inactivity, an attempt is made to bring the zombie back to life with sending an email to him and explaining what will happen. If there is no reaction, m days later the user is purged. (*)
• No purge of nodes just because of inactivity (though I still think 2 years is long enough).

(*) While first being in favour of this, I can very well remember how I feel if I am "spammed" with email from some "uninteresting site". While I like the idea very much to try to bring back monks (not thought of in my post), we cannot assume everyone being as interested in this site as us.

Bye
 PetaMem

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