On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:15:01PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
If no other record of membership duration has been maintained, then the luv-main and other list archives do show the date of the earliest recorded post of each member, i.e. the date on which they became an active member, if the archive is complete.
two problems with that: 1. not everyone posts - in fact, i'd be surprised if more than about 25 or 30% of members ever post at all (most members of most lists lurk and rarely, if ever, post anything - that's perfectly normal), and 2. membership is from when you subscribe to luv-announce, not when you first post to luv-announce or any LUV list. given that the mailing list software has changed at least twice (and even the name of the list, from melb-linux to luv-*), there probably isn't any reliable record of when everyone joined. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>