Re: [Manycouches] ways to slow list traffic down

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 27 August 2019 00:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Manycouches] ways to slow list traffic down
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Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> But a quota might also do more harm than good, though, because batched
    >> replies would make it harder to keep track of individual threads and
    >> issues.

    > I think it's important for thinking about these sorts of issues to
    > include incentives among the various considerations, and I do think
    > that quotas will tend to incentivize long, multi-topic pieces of mail.
    > I'm actually not sure I love moderating every post, either, but we'll
    > see how things go and what we learn with the add experiment.

ideally, it would be nice to be able to limit replies on a per-thread basis.
That way, the batched replies would deal with a common topic.

The obvious hack is to start new threads for new topics.  That in of itself
might be a positive thing.

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