8 Jun
2005
8 Jun
'05
4 p.m.
I've mentioned to Jay that a personal post-per-day
limit would be nice. Apparently such a thing is not practical.
How about a hard limit of 75 posts a day or 10 by any individual
after which the Whole list would freeze until the next morning.
That would cause things to sort out pretty fast.
I think that is a _really_ bad idea. In fact it would drive me off the
list for good
Remember this is an international list (which is a Good Thing). So
suppose the 'day' runs from midnight to midnight in one of the US time
zones. Depending on where you are in the world, your work schedule, etc,
will depend whether you are active near the start of the day or the end.
If the latter you may be rarely able to post.
In terms of the limit-per-person, that's a Bad Thing too. Suppose a
person sees 15 messages he's got useful replies for. Said person will
decide to reply to the 10 he feels he knows most about, but maybe one of
the ones he misses out _nobody_ else knows anything about, so his comment
on that would have been very useful.
And if you're going to have it so that once a person has posted 10
messages then nobody else can post, that's even worse. Some idiot will
post 10 useless replies in the first few minutes of the day, nobody else
will be able to say anything.
-tony