[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-L needs dailing posting limits

Tue Feb 22 13:07:08 UTC 2005

I'll admit that I had interest in those threads when they started, but after
a while I just deleted, without reading, the output of the principle
posters. The dialog had ceased to have new or interesting information,
assuming I was here to chat, let alone form Wikipedia policy.

Fred

> From: Viajero <viajero at quilombo.nl>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:52:34 +0100
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] WikiEN-L needs dailing posting limits
> 
> 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.
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