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Title: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: GGKoul on May 25, 2005, 02:16:19 pm: Just received this email... When is this policy going to be enforced? I wonder how many users will lose when this is first run.

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Dear User,

You are receiving this message as you are a registered user on the Build Your
Own Arcade Message Forum.

Effective immediately we will be implementing a reoccurring user deletion
exercise for registered users. It will have the following qualifications:

0 posts
Never logged in, or Login Time is >= 1 year from current date
Registered with site >= 6 months from current date.

If you find this deletion in error, you can simply re-register your account.
This will be repeated at least weekly and will eventually move to daily. We will
also be instituting additional qualification in the future. You will be notified
in advance for any changes made to this process.

Regards,
BYOAC Team.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: GGKoul on May 25, 2005, 02:27:14 pm: Haha..
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on May 25, 2005, 02:56:27 pm: Yeah, and I had a typo in the subject too dangit :(

This whacked 1399 accounts.

Your local ---> :police:
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: AlanS17 on May 25, 2005, 06:43:31 pm: You just whacked 1399 people who will never notice.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: Thenasty on May 25, 2005, 10:32:07 pm: I just read/got that one today....I thought I was being deleted....but everyone loves Thenasty ;)
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: Todd H on May 25, 2005, 11:10:05 pm: Thought I was being deleted as well. Glad to know I'm still registered. :)
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on May 25, 2005, 11:22:06 pm: Did you guys even read the note? The subject gave no indication your account was going to be deleted. Shesh.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: missioncontrol on May 26, 2005, 01:10:15 pm: I never got a notice........
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on May 26, 2005, 01:19:52 pm: MC: The system sent out 7500 emails all at once, and I got a ton of bounces. Make sure that your yahoo account is valid and you're not blocking us in some way. I'm wondering if mails going to hosts like this flagged it as flood spam and denied it. I had to eventually direct the undeliverables to null.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: missioncontrol on May 26, 2005, 01:42:16 pm: yahoo may have thought it to be spam or something.. I checked my bulk folder and it wasn't in there either....

No big deal....I check out the forums every day due to my BYOAC addiction ;D so I doubt I have to worry about deletion.....
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: Crazy Cooter on May 31, 2005, 11:19:46 pm: I didn't get it at my hotmail account either.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on June 01, 2005, 12:28:02 am: We really get hit or miss with Hotmail accounts. I see undeliverables for them all the time for one reason or another (quota, account gone, etc). We're not on any block list, and we really don't send out that much mail. Who knows.

I can throw anybody a gmail bone if you want it. Hotmail is OK, but it is definitely the bottom of the big 3.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: Quarters on June 04, 2005, 01:50:51 am: I never got that email either and I run my own mail server (no spam filters). Strange
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on June 04, 2005, 02:06:49 am: The only thing I can say is be sure your email is accurate. I definitely know it went out as I counted approx 7800 seperate emails in the logs.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: monkeybomb on June 04, 2005, 12:03:25 pm: Quote from: sirwoogie on June 04, 2005, 02:06:49 am
The only thing I can say is be sure your email is accurate. I definitely know it went out as I counted approx 7800 seperate emails in the logs.

Yeah but you really should have gone through those one at a time and double checked for accuaracy.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: sirwoogie on June 04, 2005, 02:21:43 pm: I hope your joking. I'm not about to cross reference bounces and/or undeliverables with what is listed in the profile and try to contact these users manually. There's no guarantee even doing that will get the user notified. I received approx 1200 bounces/undeliverables, which just about covers the number of accounts that deleted during the wipe. If a user cannot be expected to keep their profile information correct, how are we able to do so?

Any semi-regular will never see their account deleted. You have to be away for at least 12 months for it to be considered. I may put the the announcement in the news banner at the top of the forum on the next one.
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: monkeybomb on June 04, 2005, 04:40:36 pm: Quote from: sirwoogie on June 04, 2005, 02:21:43 pm
I hope your joking.
Of couse!
Title: Re: BBYOAC Message Forum: User Deletion Activity Announcement
Post by: Daniel270 on June 04, 2005, 07:42:59 pm: I'm on here at least twice a day, if not more... hopefully, nothing will happen to me since I never got the email....