On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:40:28 +0100, "Ikke" <Mail@NG.please> wrote:

"Mark Taylor" <mtaylorx@xlrim.com> schreef in bericht
news:Xns946769077E400maintainersetifaqorg@66.170.196.249...

"Ikke" <Mail@NG.please> wrote in
news:btbt9s$muc$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl:

I've been looking at some stats from seti and there are a lot of users
who haven't completed a WU in the last two-three years!
Why aren't they deleted (especially in the user zone: groups) to keep
a clean overall picture of currently active groups?

And I found an old account of mine (never used) and want to delete it,
how can I do this???

You cannot delete accounts.

Maybe a stupid question but why not? There are probably thousands of
accounts that are never used, why not delete them?

Maintence is time cosuming! They don't even have enough time to devote
someone to keep the groups in chronological order!

And the term "active user" is one that has
returned a result in the last xxxx days. I *think* xxxx is 30 days now?
Someone will give you the correct value, but the point is, the stats using
"active" users are relatively accurate.

OK. But lets look at a group like on:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_a_0_1.html
there are a lot of groups (like #3) that have no members, no results,
nothing! Why not disband these groups automatically?!
If you'll ask me: "the last man (or woman) to leave turns off the light"
:-)

Too time consuming, it isn't hurting anything to just leave it. And if
the people ever come back the account is ready for them.