Lars Aronsson wrote:
Or we could introduce a limit of 20 messages per person and month. That would force everyone to pick their fights (which is always a good advice, but rarely enforced), instead of allowing the list to degrade into a chat forum. Being able to post 20 messages a month is not censorship.
Although it's not enforceable as an official limit, I tend to think it's a good idea to limit one's mailing list postings to no more than the number of significant contributions to a Wikimedia project, where a "contribution" is something like writing one good paragraph of a Wikipedia article, uploading an image to Commons, etc. Just posted five messages to foundation-l? Time to find five useful non-meta things to do to make up for it!
-Mark