Re: OT: A Plea (was OT everything)

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 23:29, Peter Clark wrote:
>         In a perfect world, upon receiving a "limit reached" email, people would
> think, "Hmm, I guess there's a very chatty, and probably off-topic thread
> that's consuming the list. Have I contributed more signal than noise to the
> list? Maybe I should go and work on verbs now, rather than add fuel to a
> pointless fire..."
>         In a perfect world.
>         Of course, I have a sneaking suspicion that some people go, "What? I've hit
> the limit? But I MUST continue beating a dead horse! Ah, John will free up
> the list soon, so I'll go ahead and pound the poor ninny!"
What would be nice is if the listserv would give you the option of
cancelling a held post rather than having it sent out when the list is
unheld. I've often sent a post, got a message saying we've reached the
limit, and thought 'hm, that was a rather useless post. I wish I could
cancel it'. (In fact, even having it rejected outright, rather than
held, would be help curb the off-topicness, because people will repost
on topic posts but hopefully not offtopic ones.) Perhaps thinking before
posting would help, but it'd be nice to think after posting, too :)

So is that possible?

--
Tristan (fearing not)

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