WikiEN-L needs dailing posting limits - WikiEN-l

22 Feb 2005

Hi all,

This list *urgently* needs to adopt daily posting limits. A certain user 
(you know who you are) recently posted some THIRTY times in 24 hours to 
the list on the topic of "One reason why Wikipedia is not presently 
classroom-safe", with some postings only two minutes apart. This is a 
great discourtesy to other subscribers to this list. I realize topics 
such as explicit photos are contentious and will not be solved without 
long discussion, but threads like the above-mentioned where a couple of 
users are responsible for like messages in 24 hours make it exceedingly 
difficult for the rest of us to follow the discussion. I would like to 
know what various people think about these topics but I don't want to 
have to scroll through two hundred messages to find out.

Another busy list I subscribe to has a daily posting limit of three 
messages per subscriber. Go above that, you get put on moderation 
(messages get routed first to the listmaster). WikiEN-L urgently needs 
something similar.

V.