Deletion Stubs

What I had always heard was that for performance reasons you want to get rid of these non-documents as soon as reasonably possible. But then our NAB (directory in new-speak) has ended up with previously deleted users 3 times since the first of the year. Well, today I figured out what the deal is. Our departments have 'loner laptops' that may sit on the shelf for 2 or 3 months before they get used. So, a user grabs that laptop, plugs into the net and starts to replicate before leaving on a trip and SLAP, old users are re-populated into our NAB.

So, I'm thinking that we don't delete hundreds of users in our little 220 person company and so we should be fine to keep those deletion stubs around for years. Well, I guess setting the "Remove documents not modified in the last x days" maxes out at 999. But, that should give us roughly 500 days of staying time for our stubs and I hope that will be enough.

And, how do you tell how many stubs you have in a database anyway?
- NotesPeek
- at the console 'show database dbname
- Deletion Analyzer

UPDATE - read the response (click on story title) by Julian Robichaux for a link to another tool.