From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 11:00:48 MDT
On 2002.05.27, E. Shaun Russell <e_shaun@extropy.org> wrote:
>
> In the past week, there have been at least four cases of list
> overposting.
Can't people receive this list as a digest? Why is there a need
to limit the number of messages someone can post to the list?
This seems like a "give a man a fish" vs. "teach a man to fish."
By limiting people's posts-per-day, you're giving the readership
fish.
Teach them how to get the list in digest format. Teach them
how to fish.
If the reason for the post-limiting is the cost of the mailing
list on Extropy (or wherever the list is hosted) -- are people
interested in starting a non-limited mailing list on Yahoo! Groups
or somewhere else?
I don't get to read more than 10% of the posts to the list, but
I want all 100% of all possible posts so I can pick the best 10%
that I want to read. I don't want a potentially good post get
discouraged because "I'm over my limit for today" and they never
get around to sending the post the next day.
Sure, it's not a hard limit -- they could post it anyway -- but
generally people who will abide by self-enforced list policies
are the ones I might very well want to read posts from, so it's
only their posts that I'll be missing ...
-- Dossy
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Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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