Author: Jeff Anderson
Date: 19:12:11 08/15/98
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I must say right off that I believe your idea to be a very rotten one. I agree there is a small problem, but this is not the proper way to go about solving it at all. Here are couple of the people you would like to censor. I'm sure the rest of CCC would be thrilled with you if you had your way and removed their "excess" posts. It is interesting to note that the most prolific posters are generally the most informative ones. This is for 25.8.98 Name #Posts #Post Mr.McKenzie wants to kill ------------------------------------------------------------------ Komputer Korner 14 11 Robert Hyatt 7 4 On August 15, 1998 at 14:23:07, Peter McKenzie wrote: >It is obvious that certain people are posting a large number of messages that >are of little or no value to this group. Couple this with the fact that the >vast majority of members make only a few posts per day at most, and an obvious >idea becomes apparent: place a fixed limit on the number of posts made by a >singe person over a fixed time period. (Moderators not included) > >An initial suggestion would be three per day, or perhaps better would be >something like 15 per 7 days. > >Whatever limit is chosen, it will be a slight inconvenience for some people. >But please, consider for a moment the positive impact the policy would have on >this group. I see these as two fold: >1) Crazy slanging matches would be limited to a low volume of messages. >2) More thought would go into messages. Instead of just blasting off yet >another half thought out message, certain people might actually slow down a >fraction because they know they can't just blast out another message five >minutes later. > >And hey, if you run out of messages for the day there is always the next day! >Or email... > >Best Regards, >Peter McKenzie
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