Re: keeping traffic on this list manageable

On Friday 31 October 2008 20:30:13 Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > A simpler approach might be to just make the mailing list software > enforce a 1 email per 24-hour day per user. It would require a bit more > upfront work to munge the software, but wouldn't require any ongoing > effort. Moderation can get messy since it isn't simply spam we or > off-topic messages we are trying to control here, it is the volume, > quality and timeliness of on-topic messages. I'm not sure moderation is > the answer to that. We need a behavioural change here. > > -Rasmus Well, I don't think that won't work. There are cases where one user replied to multiple mails in a short time without fighting, just explaining and discussiong, and you don't want to block that - as well as it wouldn't stop random people from suggesting dropping the $ from variables, making the namespace separator configurable etc. IMO, it's the volume of people, not the volume of messages, that is the main problem here. Regards, Stefan