Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread Robin Gareus
On 10/29/2013 05:26 PM, Charles Z Henry wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Robin Gareus ro...@gareus.org wrote: The system will be activated on 31/Oct/2013 if not vetoed. The actual rate-limit may also be adjusted over time to reflect list-behaviour. yours truly, robin So, I've

Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread drew Roberts
On Thursday 31 October 2013 11:12:13 Robin Gareus wrote: On 10/29/2013 05:26 PM, Charles Z Henry wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Robin Gareus ro...@gareus.org wrote: The system will be activated on 31/Oct/2013 if not vetoed. The actual rate-limit may also be adjusted over time to

Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread Robin Gareus
On 10/31/2013 04:19 PM, drew Roberts wrote: [..] Have the lists history been mined to see how many valuable users violate this proposed policy one some days? Perhaps they go a week and then have 20 posts in one day and then go another week? Mined, no. The problem here is the definition of

Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:19 22, drew Roberts wrote: Have the lists history been mined to see how many valuable users violate this proposed policy one some days? Perhaps they go a week and then have 20 posts in one day and then go another week? FWIW, this tends to be my own usage pattern -- a

Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread Robin Gareus
On 10/31/2013 05:32 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: [..] Might we want to consider modifying this rule so as to apply to a dozen messages *in a given thread* per day? I agree that, if one is doing that much shouting about a single topic, it'd probably be better to give it a rest. :) That was the

Re: [LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

2013-10-31 Thread hermann meyer
Am 31.10.2013 17:51, schrieb Robin Gareus: On 10/31/2013 05:32 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: [..] Might we want to consider modifying this rule so as to apply to a dozen messages *in a given thread* per day? I agree that, if one is doing that much shouting about a single topic, it'd probably be