I am a fan of posting limits but I am also a fan of spirit of the law verses letter of the law. It accomplished its goal of cutting out obnoxious over-posting, so I really don't care if anyone goes over some week by accident. If it was chronic that would be a different story. But with Judy, that is obviously not the case.
I throw my hat in for leniency for all going forward. We know what the rule is about. I say everyone deserves a mulligan, using a word that I will never get a chance to use in its actual sports context. I believe that as Mark Twain pointed out "Golf is a good walk spoiled." --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > 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. >
