Limit posts per person

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At 02:15 PM 9/2/98 -0700, Bro Dave Vivas wrote:

>This is just a question (probably for the moderators to answer). But how
>many posts are limited per person per day? I recall about a year or so ago
>that there was a limit per person.

Technically... there no hard limit placed on the list.  If anything 
the limit has mostly been voluntary by those that post to not post so
many to wear out others ears (a courtesy thang).

There's no setting that I can send into the listprocessor to have IT limit
the # of posts by any one person.  About the only thing I can do is to
send in an IGNORE command with an appropriate e-mail address *then* when 
that command is successfully processed, any e-mail to the listproc or the
list by the e-mail address listed in the previously mentioned ignore command
winds up in the bit bucket without anyone knowing whatever happened to it.

The closest limit of any kind is the maximum messages per day limit that
the whole list abides by.

>I find that I get somewhere between 7-10 posts per person at times. At one
>time, there was in incident where 15 posts came in from one person. I gave
>the moderators the benefit of the doubt that maybe two days went by before
>they were processed. But it is evident that anywhere between 7-10 posts come
>in per person at times. Not always...

I think what happens, is that folks check their e-mail in batches throughout 
the day.  So at 2pm & 10pm they check the days e-mail, they hit the REPLY key 
several times and have 4 - 6 responses each time.  They hit the send key and 
*away* all of them go at the same time back to the list.  The first reply had 4 
the second one had 7.  They don't send in the mail one-at-a- time as they are 
prepared, but in a big batch as to reduce the number of phone calls/connections 
to their ISP or e-mail service.  So... what everybody else sees... is Bro X
posting 11 messages.  If they sort their incomming e-mail box by received date,
then they'll see they have arrived in two different batches.  If they sort 
the incomming e-mail box by name, then they see just 11 posts.... period.

>So I just would like to know how many are limited per person per day. Also,
>users should learn to not continue to repeat or repeat a previous
>message...at least not the whole message. I realize that we respond to a
>message. But we should only snip the part we are responding to and not send
>the whole message. This will cut down on much unecessary reading. 

Technically, it'd be great thing that people only respond to 4 or 5 posts
a day (in a perfect world).  That'd give a little more bandwidth for others
to get a word in edgewise.  Also, I think it'd help if folks also would read
all of their incomming e-mail first before replying because someone else 
might have said what they want to say.  

I'd personally like for folks not to post more (in an really active 
discussion day) than 4 - 6 posts with only a post or two for a single
thread.....

Now... the editing thing, where you only re-post what you're replying to,
is getting a little out of hand with entirely too much information being
reposted to the list.  I've been pretty lax lately letting things go through.
But, with me moderating by my lonesome through the the end of the week, I 
might not be so kind as to let a post that has 4 new lines of comments that
includes a repost of 60 lines from a previously read post.  

Bro Tyler
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