Dan Minette wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: test
>
> > Dan Minette wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:17 AM
> > > Subject: RE: test
> > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:brin-l-bounces@;mccmedia.com]On
> > > > > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > Sounds like an awful lot of work for something that is not really
> > > useful,
> > > > > not really complies with IAAMOAC, and goes against David Brin's
> wish
> > > that
> > > > > this list be unmoderated.
> > > >
> > > > David Brin *suggested* the system.
> > >
> > > *touche*
> > >
> > > I know I would never use DB to support my position without talking to
> him
> > > first; especially when fussing at someone who has lunch with him. :-)
> > >
> > > On a practical matter, you are not planning on letting one poster give
> > > another 20 dings/day by themselves, are you? That could be a problem,
> I
> > > think.
> >
> > I think that dinging should be limited on a per-day basis. I think that
> > no single person should give another single person more than one ding
> > per day, at least until we see how the system works out in reality. If
> > someone wants to ding 10 different people in one day, I don't have a
> > problem with that, especially since being the dinger would carry some
> > cost. (This is just my opinion, though.)
>
> I think that is reasonable. But, I've got a neat, IMHO, variation on that.
> If person A dings person B, who dings back, person A should be free to ding
> again. But, then person B would also be free to ding back. The question
> is whether we will have two antagonists who act like dingbats by dinging
> back and forth.
Well, if in the end the net result is slowing of messages, if we want to
limit it to one *unanswered* ding per dinger per dingee per day and
allow unlimited back-and-forthing of it, what that will do is to greatly
limit the amount of traffic either of the two dingers could post to the
actual list. Which, if they're in the sort of mindset that repeated
dinging would indicate, might not be such a bad idea.
Julia
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