On 07/29/2011 05:21 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bob Price<bobpriced@...> wrote: >> Lets make it official: >> >> >> >> "Deletegate" >> >> We need something catchy and memorable for future archival research. >> >> And unless the supremos (Alex and Rick) intervene I say >> we form a committee with subpoena powers to investigate. > > Jim recently spaced out on the day/time and had to take a week off. The only > difference here is that Judy quickly saw her mistake and attempted to right > the wrong by deleting her posts. I *really* hate being put in the position of > making this call, so I emailed Rick and told him that I am stepping away from > this one. It's his call. > > As for me, I have a tank full of pond water ready to go, so I'm going to go > out on the tractor and water all the new plantings. With all the rain that > had been in the forecast, we got about half a dozen drops. It rained last > night, but when I went out this morning and turned the rain gauge upside > down, not one drop came out. Grrrrrr...
Post deletions mostly don't work for those of us who read via email. Judy is usually very good about watching her post count. For those concerned since it is a 50 post limit give yourself 7 posts a day and you get 1 extra at the end of the week. You can start watching your trends. I may sometime post more at the start of the week because I know many topics are going to piddle out as the week continues and people will drop out of topics because they've posted out. The post count script works by email and downloads the headers once a day a 15 minutes after 0 hours UTC (or GMT). The 15 minutes is because I noticed a latency from Yahoo mail that some might game to post more than the limit. The script filters messages outside the date and time range of the week. Occasionally Yahoo will burp and send out a duplicate of one message. Unfortunately Yahoo will also bump the message number, otherwise duplicate emails with the same message number could be expunged from the count. It appears that web site filters duplicates. Some here will remember that I opposed posting limits as being silly. In fact if you probably told folks at Yahoo about the posting limits they would probably say "you have what?" I don't know of any other group that has them. Most groups though have narrow topic rules and the moderators either delete messages or remove people who break those rules. I always thought that the complaints about "too many posts" came from computer illiterate people who for some reason didn't know how to skip messages they weren't interested or the few people who were using the group as their pre-Twitter twitting.
