On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
The latter. We are trying to give a hint to people who post "too much" that perhaps they should cut back a little, without actually being all up in their business and being all like "HEY YOU STFU", you know?
A convincing discussion as to what's wrong with posting "too much" would work much better. So far it seems to come down to people not having decent e-mail readers and people who think that lowering the number of posts is somehow going to magically increase the quality. As for the latter belief, I've seen mailing lists try this, and I've never seen it work.
If a group of you want to go off and start a new mailing list with (soft or hard) posting limits, feel free. You have my full support.
Anthony