Re: 100 Message Limit

En réponse à Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>:

> I assume I'm not the only one who tried posting and had the message
> returned
> because Conlang was over its 100-message limit for the day.  And yes,
> I
> realize that this message won't get to you until tomorrow.  But I'd like
> to
> know what you guys think of this idea - making a separate list that we
> all
> subscribed to, then we all just post new threads to whichever has less
> messages on it.
Bad idea. It would be impossible to follow, especially if threads jump from one
list to another. Moreover, most newbies would only subscribe to one list and
would miss half of the discussion.

  That way, we'd have essentially double the message
> limit on
> a single list.
Something I disagree on. 100 messages per day is largely enough. The traffic on
this list is heavy enough. If we doubled it, I'm sure quite a few people
(including some who are frequent posters) would have to drop from the list.
Anyway, we only ever reach the 100-message limit when the ratio of off-topic/on-
topic messages has dramatically increased. So the locking up of the list is a
good warning that we are a bit too much into idle chatter :)) .

  We would put the notice in the list description that
> this is
> only half of a double list, and new members could join both
> accordingly.
> Any thoughts on this?
>
Even with such a notice, most people would join only one list (how many people
actually *read* the list description anyway?). The result would be complete
chaos and plenty of people not understanding what's going on.

Christophe.

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