How about a per-thread limit regardless of author, since threads such as this one right here tend to disrupt established conversations, bore serious users -- and also elicit comments of dubious value from bike-shedders, trolls and lurkers.
On 10/31/13, hermann meyer <brumm...@web.de> wrote: > Am 31.10.2013 17:51, schrieb Robin Gareus: >> On 10/31/2013 05:32 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: >> [..] >>> Might we want to consider modifying this rule so as to apply to a >>> dozen messages *in a given thread* per day? I agree that, if one is >>> doing that much shouting about a single topic, it'd probably be >>> better to give it a rest. :) >> That was the initial intention. However it's much harder to do. The >> current implementation is a few lines of bash. it does not look at the >> content at all, just address and mail-headers as logged by the MTA. >> Basically inotifywait mail.log; cut, sort, uniq, wc, test >> >> You're welcome to provide a tool to do a better job. It's probably not >> too hard in perl or python, but I did not consider it worth my time. >> >> Before you get down to implement it however, consider volunteering as >> list-moderator. I hazard a guess that it is effectively more efficient >> to do things manually when it comes to more complex rules. >> >> If interested please contact linux-audio-user-ow...@lists.linuxaudio.org >> (which is not me). >> >> robin >> _______________________________________________ > > Often such threads change the title because they drift into more or less > of-topic. > I must say I like the "limit" given peer user and day. > My mail box have a limit for 300 mails at all, from time to time it get > flouted by mails from such threads, and I can't receive more mails then, > before I have delete the mass from the server. > That could be a pity, when I'm travel (and I travel a lot). > > regards > hermann > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev