Paul Haas wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Steve Bergeon wrote:
> 
> > Trap lists is a great idea. I was thinking of making a meta-db of
> > the user id's in all the lists. The database might keep the number
> > of lists subscribed to, time stamp of last sign-on, maybe a field
> > for weighting the other fields.
> 
> What problem are you solving?

The problem is that list managers seem to feel that they have a policy
for subscription, but there does not appear to any effort to enforce 
that policy.

> 
> > The db would be checked as part of
> > a new user id process against a policy file. The policy file might
> > have things like a max number of lists per some time period. A zero
> > time period would make the max absolute.
> 
> Way too simplistic.

That's why I threw it out for the list. Do you have suggestions for improvement?

> 
> > Has anybody done this?
> 
> > Anybody think this would be useful?
> 
> No.

Thanks for your feedback

> 
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