[discuss] limitation of mails per day?

Fri Jan 3 22:28:17 UTC 2014

moderation would be helpful.
emails that are of the form:  

+1
I agree, <nuance offered>

could, with little effect, be elided from the flow.

there is nothing to prevent conversations drifting to other venues (closed lists, interested/interesting people, etc) and such might be a natural growth of another affinity group.

I suspect that there has been enough fodder on the list for the 1net organizers to start in on the task of collating ideas.  I think it would be worthwhile to produce such a list and 
circulate it back to the list as a “straw man” snapshot of what those on the list think are important.   It would be enlightening to see where the “holes” are and why.

/bill
Neca eos omnes.  Deus suos agnoscet.

On 3January2014Friday, at 13:44, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at ccianet.org> wrote:

> Not that these aren't all interesting questions, but  speaking personally I think we can implement something like this without turning it into an exercise that requires an abacus or higher maths, to be completely frank.
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> This is implemented in other lists and the sky didn't fall in, did it?
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> Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
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>  I am going to use one of my 4 to indicate that while I will endeavor to comply, I think it is a bad idea.
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> - already today, I notice shifting discussions off list.  Long threads are what happens as one digs deeper into a topic using a conversational email mode.  Yes, it can also happen when people are ping-ponging accusatory cruft,  but that is not the only reason it happens.  Sometimes the meat of a subject only comes out after a dialogue has gone on for bit and gotten beyond the banalities.
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> - how do you balance the contributions of those who write long epistles, with those who contribute short comments.  Should we count words too?  Do we need Thomas' email stats tool which seems a good behavioral throttle? Or are we only trying to save people from having unread messages as opposed to having them read too much?
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> - if one is asked a question, do they just respond privately?
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> - what about when there are more than 4 threads?  Should we combine multiple threads in one message in order to keep our message count low?
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> - what is a day?  Does the message I sent at 1am EST before going to bed count with today's messages (I will assume it does - this is my third).  Or do we do our calculations of 4/day using UTC?  Or maybe we use Jewish rules and count from sundown?
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> - to what extent will some people decide that if they get 4 messages a day, well then they are going to use them.  Even if they have nothing to say.
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> Oh, well.
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> avri
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> On 03-Jan-14 04:16, Adiel Akplogan wrote:
>> Hello all,
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>> In one of the thread there was a suggestion to limit the number of mails per day per person to make it easy for everyone to follow and prevent few and same people to overload the mailing list (the number of 4 was suggested but that is disputable). I know some will jump that it is will be breach to freedom of expression :-) (which in fact will be somehow true), but frankly it is becoming not easy to keep track of everything posted on the list. (I have to catchup with 300+ emails after few days off) Can_we/should_we do anything at all about that? Thoughts?
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>> - a.
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