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Thursday, October 08, 2009

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By DAN ROSS
Register Online Editor

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Houston, we have a problem. Our database of readers is too big and we have to reduce its size.

When we started asking readers to register for NapaValleyRegister.com to make comments, we saw a small but steady increase in numbers. Now we are up to more than 10,000 registrations, although there are many people with more than one account.

If you are one of those people, look in your e-mail for a note from me asking you to pick your one account to keep while the other(s) are deleted.

Some of the duplicate accounts come from people playing one of our online contests and choosing a name other than the one used to make comments. Some chose a name, forgot it, and re-registered again a year or two later.

Whatever the case, we need to cut the list down.

If you received a note, please respond back. I am about one-half way through the registrations and will have all notes out by the end of next week.

If I do not have a response back in 14 days, the accounts get deleted.

Thanks for your help

--Dan

10 comment(s)

funnyme wrote on Oct 8, 2009 7:33 PM:

" Why not delete them all and start fresh with new screen names -or real names for those who don't mind?

Weed us out...Imagine a "New (and better) Beginning"!!! "

random name here wrote on Oct 9, 2009 8:28 AM:

" Dan, if you're using IP adresses to determine multiple accounts then you're going to "weed out" households who use one computer for multiple family members.

Step into the 21st Century, get a bigger database. If you need to upgrade the server memory then get in touch with me, we have exactly what you need! "

NVR-Dan Ross wrote on Oct 9, 2009 10:07 AM:

" random name here:
Only asking people to come back to one registration per individual. Thanks for the offer, though "

NVR-Dan Ross wrote on Oct 9, 2009 10:08 AM:

" funnyme:
no need to delete everyone, just have people retain one name ... thanks "

post-it wrote on Oct 9, 2009 11:39 AM:

" or just go back to posting comments without registering.... "

Skip M. wrote on Oct 9, 2009 12:38 PM:

" Hey Dan: Are you capturing any kind of "Last Activity" date/time stamp? I would suggest attaching an auto purge process that would fire once a night and check last activity. Perhaps check for accounts that have not had activity for more than a year, and dump them when that threshold is met. This would clean out all those that log in and comment one time, never to return.

Of course, from a database admin point of view, if comments are tied to user IDs and you are keeping comments for some sort of historic reference, this type of purge process could be a little more involved.

random name here: I would bet Dan is linking by email address. IP addresses are not a stable means of regularly identifying someone. People on home networks and small offices usually have a desktop IP in the range of 192.168.x.x. The unique IP gets attached to the router, but it is the workstation (PC) IP address that the browser sends to the server as the requesting host. "

thisisnotatest wrote on Oct 10, 2009 5:49 PM:

" I pay 10 bucks a month for an "unlimited" database.
I don't know who you hired for your database, but you are overpaying. "

anativenapkin wrote on Oct 11, 2009 2:24 PM:

" I can't for the life of me find that email to confirm my account :) I had 2 others because I couldn't remember them :) What do I do to let you know this is the one I would like to keep? "

glenroy wrote on Oct 14, 2009 9:03 AM:

" This is a smart move by the NVR..... "

supernova8610 wrote on Oct 14, 2009 5:43 PM:

" I'm only registered under one name here (this one) so I guess I have nothing to worry about. "

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