Re: Is the list dead, the server down or what?

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> On 4.5.2007 taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>  > Would the amount of mails a day pick up if we didn't have
>  > the limits? (5 a day per person, 100 a day total) I don't
>  > know. I do know that in the olden days there were people
>  > who posted 40 messages per day on average, and I think
>  > most of them have left.
>  >
>
> That's my feeling too. I still feel that the 5 a day limit
> is too low ...
I currently see no reason to keep it that low when traffic is not that
much of a problem anymore.  It can quite quickly be reset when we
encounter a problem again.

Are there serious objections against raising or even dropping the
the posts-per-user-per-day limit?

>...
> BTW, in the case of a re-merger, could one establish tags
> like ROMCONLANG, or is the number of possible tags limited?
> Perhaps a general tag like ALTLANG ...
We could.  But there is no way to enforce their usage. :-) It will
always be used a little bit inconsistently.  We might introduce a
monthly post as a reminder, however.  It is planned for some time now
only the corresponding Wiki page seemed too immature to me to be used
as a monthly post so far.

>...
> Is there, BTW, any setting for getting only mails with
> certain tags and not getting untagged mails?
>...
Yes, in the Web interface, there is a checkbox labelled 'Other' in the
Topics section of the subscription options, which you may uncheck.

**Henrik