[Foundation-l] Moderation and this list

Sun Dec 23 01:49:21 UTC 2007

on 12/22/07 4:34 PM, Andrew Whitworth at wknight8111 at gmail.com wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007 3:31 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>>> Or we could introduce a limit of 20 messages per person and month.
> 
> This is actually a nice solution, since people would have to be more
> thoughtful about what emails they did send. Of course, a better
> approach may be to limit the number of emails per thread, although
> people could just start different similarly-named threads to
> circumvent this.
> 
> I think what we really want is for people to think more before they
> send an email, be more composed in those emails, and to be more
> reserved before spamming a lot of messages to the list. It's hard to
> enforce a technical solution onto vague problems like these.
> 
> --Andrew Whitworth

Andrew,

Is the dialogue to be conversational? If it is, what happens if the response
is one sentence? And the response to that is one sentence...?

Marc