[Michael]

Originally Posted By: Photog also one last thing... i send out cool monthly newsletters for several reason... the first and foremost important reason is to try to respark interest in those members that have 'forgotten' about our forum. everytime i send one out we always get a bunch of people that have not been on in a long while come back and begin to contribute. getting members is half the battle of having a successful forum so why prune or eliminate ones you already have simply because they dont contribute... just try to entice them to get back and contribute.

Exactly, most users are usually just lurking away so to delete their account when infact that could an active "user" of your forums is just unfortunate and only loses you members. To those who like their member statistics to be accurate and a relevant portayal of who you are active members you'll soon find that it can become difficult to differentiate between who active and who is inactive, of course though if disk space is an issue then purging is really your only option, although i think that pruning posts is a much better way of ridding yourself of some excessive bandwidth.