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Spiff Started conversation Oct 15, 2003
Hi there all you froody gooroos, 
I've been looking at my old conversations and there are some 5500 odd! 
I don't think it's actually doing any harm being subscribed to them all (they're mostly old PR threads) but i'm wondering if there is some easy way to unsubscribe 'en masse'.
I guess i'm not sure it'd be such a great idea anyhoos, cos there's no doubt some in there that i'd rather know if they ever awake from obscurity for some reason...
just wondrin' if there was some trick i don't know about.
ta in advance for any help
spiff
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 15, 2003
there certainly wasn't pre upgrade and i had hoped that it might have been part of it. But unless something has been changed that hasn't yet been announced, then not as far as i know 
unsubscribing from old threads
Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 15, 2003
it is all the old aceings that i want to mass unsub from!
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Ottox Posted Oct 15, 2003
So that the people returning at a later time and being confused can't reach you. That's a good Ace!
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Spiff Posted Oct 15, 2003
hiya, and thanks for the response,
I was mostly thinking of unsubing from old PR threads.
Does it take up server space, being subbed to a thread?
cya
spiff
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 15, 2003
well if they haven't got in touch after an aceing and a return post by 4 months then i figure they aint gonna 
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Mina Posted Oct 15, 2003
You'd be surprised. I signed up, hung around for about a week, then vanished for six months before returning and getting stuck!
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 15, 2003
and then you went on to work there! Didn't turn out too bad afterall did it!
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Mina Posted Oct 15, 2003
One of the best thigns I ever did was rediscover the site. 
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 15, 2003
and a good thing for the site too!! (creep, creep )
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Spiff Posted Oct 15, 2003
Hello Mina, :) funny, you crop up in this thread, and just afterwards, on page 'skip=5275' I stumble upon http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F77636?thread=162338 I'm only unsubbing from dead PR threads though, so i guess i'll leave that one. Not that i'm expecting it to rise from the dead... :-D btw, do you happen to know whether having so many researchers subscribed to 1000s of 'dead' threads takes up server resources? spiff
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Rho Posted Oct 18, 2003
Subscribing to a thread would add a little bit of data to the constantly-growing database, which I heard is a few gigabytes in size just now. However, unless that data was requested, no server time would be used, just a little bit of memory.
Rho
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- 1: Spiff (Oct 15, 2003)
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- 4: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Oct 15, 2003)
- 5: Ottox (Oct 15, 2003)
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- 7: Spiff (Oct 15, 2003)
- 8: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Oct 15, 2003)
- 9: Mina (Oct 15, 2003)
- 10: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Oct 15, 2003)
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