Overposting

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 11 11:27:33 PDT 2001


brettk at unicacorp.com wrote:


>Hey Brad,
>
>>What's wrong with just informing us that we are violating social
>>norms established for the general good, and should shape up?
>
>Nothing is wrong with it, but it's routine to see people post 10 messages
>in a day. It makes sense, too. If people didn't post this much, many
>threads would take too long to develop or would simply die. The 3 post
>limit is too low, and is properly being ignored, IMHO.

No it's not. The traffic on this list is very heavy, and while most of it is very good, the quantity does put people off sometimes. I hate being a cop and an accountant, so I'm not the disciplinarian I should be, but I'd appreciate it if people did try to control themselves.

Doug



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