[MLB-WIRELESS] Node Database Housekeeping?

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Unfortunately I have no coding skills whatsoever....however I'm happy to 
manually trawl the database to at least kill the duplicates if there's 
some way of getting access.

-Ryan


On 10/04/2015 8:44 PM, mw at freenet.net.au wrote:
> Ho Ryan,
>
> No existing (working) functionality like that at the moment - needs a
> volunteer to take it on ;)
>
> There has been plenty of talk over the years for that kind of feature,
> including use of ping to test for nodes that are actively connected to the
> network.  However it is done, it should be sufficiently easy going to avoid
> nodes (like KBN ;) that have no updates made to them, but continue to be
> active nonetheless.
>
> Now that I mention it, I do remember someone complaining a few years back
> that lack of updates to the node info automatically killed the entry - don't
> know if it was intentional, automated or manual...  so maybe there IS some
> functionality in there already (but must be disabled at the moment ;)
>
> In any case - are you interested in taking a crack at that?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: melbwireless-bounces at lists.wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
>> bounces at lists.wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Ryan Abbenhuys
>> Sent: Friday, 10 April 2015 7:33 PM
>> To: melbwireless at lists.wireless.org.au
>> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Node Database Housekeeping?
>>
>>
>> Does the node database have any facility to cull old inactive nodes?
>> Something along the lines of a system generated email where the node
>> owner has to click a link or their node gets marked inactive and hidden or
>> deleted from the database?
>>
>> Browsing around nodes I see many where the "Last Seen" date is upwards of
>> 5 years ago with status' of "interested", "gathering", etc.  Clearly these
>> people have moved on to other ventures...
>>
>> There also seem to be quite a few duplicates, triplicates and even more.
>>    JHP, JHQ, JHR and JHS look like someones failed attempt to create a node
> 4
>> times in a row.
>>
>> -Ryan
>> Node AAF
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