Re: META five posts a day limit( was: introduction Middelsprake)

Hi!

Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...>
> > I agree.  You know, though, some of us don't use our five a
> > day (thankfully--imagine if we all did!
>
> Indeed. By my eye there are some 400+ subscribers, though I do not know
> how many of those are active posting subscribers (real people), active
> non-posting subscribers (lurkers), or expired yet still kicking around
> (zombies) -- I know about three of them are old addresses of mine that
> I've never properly managed to expunge. My brilliant intellect does not
> have trouble multiplying 400 by 5, and the resultant number is quite
> large.
>
> Henrik: Can you do some kind of "ping" email to subscribers who have
> not posted in, say, a year, and have a script delete those subscribers
> who return a "No longer known at this address" type response?
Would be quite some work (e.g. checking all the posting dates and
relate them to persons -- the software has no obvious direct support
for that), and it would disturb 'active' lurkers, and this for no much
more benefit than having a better approximation of the number of
people who are interested.  The dead accounts are basically that:
dead.  No-one's disturbed by them.  Further, accounts are regularly
disabled and/or deleted when addresses become invalid or quotas
overflow and some seven days or so, no-one notices.

I'm also confirmed now that it's too experimental to change the
running system with limits 100/day and 5/day/person.  Especially due
to your positive feedback about the limits, and my remembering
skipping whole threads before those limits existed.

**Henrik

PS: I myself will be quiet now since I'm sure I have posted more than
    five times today...