From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 09:38:19 MST
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Dave Sill wrote:
>
> "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org> wrote:
> > Mr. Hack: The quality of your posts is not the question.
> >
> > The rule is 8 posts a day, maximum. Consensus is not at issue, nor, per se,
> > are your tendencies, some of which I shared until reminded of the 8 posts per
> > day limit by the listcop(s). I'm not sure it is graven in stone whether that
> > is "dated the same day at the sender's location" or "in any 24-hour period".
>
> If there's a hard limit of 8 per day, it should be enforced by the
> list software. Our time is too valuable to be spent counting
> everyone's messages and bitching at them. I think the rules should be
> more like guidelines, and another guideline should be that only list
> admin(s) point out violations, and only in private.
It is difficult for the list software to do this fairly, specifically
because we don't all live in the same time zones and we don't all do our
email at the exact same time each day. If I send 6 messages between 5-6
pm one day, and 6 more from 9-10 am the next (in MY time zone, not the
list server's), a hardset 8 post per day limit will calculate that I've
sent 12 messages in a 24 hour period, and boot me off the list. While I
understand that there are some here who would celebrate that, this
illustrates how hard it is to get software to enforce human laws.
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