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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] keeping traffic on this list manageable
From: et@php.net (Stefan Walk)

On Friday 31 October 2008 20:30:13 Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> A simpler approach might be to just make the mailing list software
> enforce a 1 email per 24-hour day per user.  It would require a bit more
> upfront work to munge the software, but wouldn't require any ongoing
> effort.  Moderation can get messy since it isn't simply spam we or
> off-topic messages we are trying to control here, it is the volume,
> quality and timeliness of on-topic messages.  I'm not sure moderation is
> the answer to that.  We need a behavioural change here.
>
> -Rasmus

Well, I don't think that won't work. There are cases where one user replied to 
multiple mails in a short time without fighting, just explaining and 
discussiong, and you don't want to block that - as well as it wouldn't stop 
random people from suggesting dropping the $ from variables, making the 
namespace separator configurable etc. IMO, it's the volume of people, not the 
volume of messages, that is the main problem here.

Regards,
Stefan