<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#663366"><p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is implemented in other lists and the sky didn't fall in, did it?</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
- 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.<br />
<br />
- 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?<br />
<br />
- if one is asked a question, do they just respond privately?<br />
<br />
- 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?<br />
<br />
- 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?<br />
<br />
- 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.<br />
<br />
Oh, well.<br />
<br />
avri<br />
<br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-Jan-14 04:16, Adiel Akplogan
wrote:<br />
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<pre wrap="">Hello all,
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?
- a.
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