At 05:06 PM 05/04/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Slightly unrelated, sort of poll: >Would anyone object if mail list software would limit number of daily messages >from the same source* to an arbitary percentage of total messages from all >sources ?
Yes - that's a job for client-side filters, not server-side, and it also breaks mail from remailers. Also, some days, perhaps nobody but Choate had anything to say :-) so percentage-of-total rules aren't very good. Genuine human filtering can do better, if that's what you want, but I don't think anybody's still running a best-of-cypherpunks list (maybe Sunder, who forwarded an average of ~10% of the total postings.) Different individuals have different preferences for what they want to see - some people may want 0 Choategrams, some may want all of them, some may want 20%, but have different opinions about which 20%. Eric's LNE.com moderation, which whitelists subscribers and other well-known posters, and does human-based filtering on mail from unknowns, works pretty well for me. It still lets [annoying Australian ranter] through, which is easily fixed by Eudora filters, and lets real and forged Choategrams through (it'd be nice if the forgeries were easily blocked, but they're not, and mail clients can easily throw away all of his material if you want, or all of his Slashdot forwards or whatever.)
