For what little my opinion will be worth, and I'm mainly a lurker, I have really enjoyed reading FF Life again since the 5 post limit came into being. It is much more manageable, the tone is much more civil, and there is not a lot of one liner posts and the people who felt a need to post about anything and everything either have left the group of they have learned to post less.
I vote to keep it like this, with the five posts. Kenny H. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The trouble with this idea is that, as you said, counting is difficult. But > if people really wanted me to, I'd be willing to average posts over a week, > and start the recount each Monday morning. Let's have feedback on that idea. > An alternative would be for you to do all your writing in your email program > or in 5 long emails which you save as drafts until you've done all the > writing you want to do and can send them. Of course, that prevents the > liveliness of back and forth dialog, and might discourage readership, as > many people wouldn't want to read big long things, unless they were > extremely well written. I used to notice that FFL became more active on > weekends, especially Sundays, as people have more time to participate. So > again, I'm open to the idea of a 35-post weekly limit for each member. Let's > get some feedback on that. >