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 author: christel
 date: 2004-09-08 02:38:24+00:00
 slug: scheduled-maintenance-services-database-clear-out
-title: '[Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.'
+title: [Scheduled Maintenance] Services database clear-out.
+imported: yes
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 This is just to let you know that we will soon be performing a fairly massive cleanup of the NickServ database, and through it the ChanServ database.  We're hoping to clear out a lot of the dead nicks and channels in order to make our next services upgrade a simpler process.
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 We'll be dropping all expired nicknames. As  [explained](http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#expirations)  in the  [FAQ](http://freenode.net/faq.shtml),  IRC nicknames on freenode expire after 60 days.  Nicks that are at least two weeks old and that were last used less than two hours after their creation are also considered to be expired.
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 There are several things you should know about this cleanup process: