Michael Becker wrote:
In the interest of making it possible for users to read all (or even most) e-mail's from the mailing list, and to give people equal representation on the list (to try an keep people who don't send 50 million e-mails from being ignored) I propose we set up a limit to the number of e-mails that can be sent per day per e-mail account.
I'm not sure that I support this, exactly, but I would like to note that "too much volume" is as much a barrier to participation as rules of this type, and that I do think this is a problem.
Part of it might be an increased effort on everyone's part to only bring things to the mailing list after they can't be resolved on /talk pages.