Hi Doug,
There are already so many posts every day I can't read them all. Better too many than not enough, as long as the quality remains high. Since your last message, I've started keeping track of overposting. While not ubiquitious, it is routine. I started keeping track at 3 PM on Monday, and found 3 overposters (15% of all people who posted something to the list). Tuesday there were 9 overposters, about 31% of all folks contributing to the list that day, with 2 repeat offenders (I'm not going to name names, although it's tempting). There are two people over the limit today and it's not even lunch time.
It's not like people are going crazy - the worst offender posted 10 times. I'm not counting you since I assume the limit is waived for the moderator.
Overposting is common, not limited to one or two chronic offenders (a substantial fraction of the usual posters overpost on at least a semi-regular basis), and nobody ever gets sent to re-education camp as far as I can tell. Perhaps I'm the only one who gets annoyed at the warning messages Panix sends out when you exceed 3 posts, but they do annoy me. The list is virtually free from spam, and the flamage that exists is still educational. I'd prefer relief from the overposting warning to the muzzle, so I argue for a raise in the minimum wage.
I suggest you double or triple the posting limit.
Brett
>>IMHO, you should either raise the posting limit, crack down on
malefactors
>>(which are distressingly plentiful), or get rid of the warnings
altogether.
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>Oh, and like I said the other day, the bot got snuffed in a machine
>change at Panix, and I failed to rescue the text of the script in
>time.
>
>I'm tempted to get nastier, just becuase of this provocation.