Marco Anglesio wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, jean-christophe helary wrote:
> > magic number that means 'not more than you deem necessary'. but the
> > machine that counts your posts does not understand necessity. a proof
>
> Perhaps you could arrange for a necessity discount from panix?
>
> I'm being a tad snarky, but this list does cost money and Doug pays for it
> out of his own pocket. A token amount per message turns into a substantial
> chunk of change once you have a large subscriber base and a high volume.
>
> This list is a very popular institution, make no mistake. The list
> generates better than 2000 messages a month and the archive (which I host
> - better arrange for a necessity discount from @Home, too) averages about
> 250 000 hits a month. That's a lot of traffic.
>
> > jc helary (better idea: let's have it like the bosses in france, don't
> > count activity by day but by month or year !!! 90 posts a month max or
> > 1000 something a year)
>
> That's not really a good idea, I think. The only reason this list is
> readable is because 99% of the subscribers don't use up their 3 post a day
> soft limit. If you wish to extend credit across a month, then you're just
> encouraging people to post more often.
>
> If you wanted to improve the list's quality and readability, you'd
> encourage people to post a little bit less and reduce their signal to
> noise rather than encouraging a free for all. As it is, the soft limit
> does a pretty good job of reminding people to pick and choose.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco
>
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