Spyro Polymiadis writes: > We've got some ppl here that just post for the hell of it and just waste > time in general, So we're looking at clamping down on some things..
This is a political problem; there are no technical solutions.... If you've got power or consensus that a limit is appropriate, moderate the people who are abusing the consensus limits. (I would guess that's why this process got dubbed "moderation" in the first place.) Go to the Membership Management pages, and click on the Moderate Member button for members you don't trust to pace themselves. Somebody will have to actually read and pass judgment on individual posts, of course. If you have a pretty substantial majority that will go along, but you want things to look more "fair", you can moderate everybody (there's a "moderate all" button at the bottom of the page). This will require substantially more effort from the moderator(s) to keep the desired traffic flowing. If you "can't just do things like that", you're probably going to need to adjust the human relationships before anything effective can be done. Whatever you do will be called "censorship", no matter how fair you think it is---the targets will know that you're aiming at them. (At least they'll figure it out as soon as their post gets rejected!) Anything automatic can be abused, too. For example, a simple limit on thread length could be imposed by counting the number of references in the "References" header. Then somebody who wants to have the last word simply stuffs that header with bogus references to max out the count. Somebody willing to look like a jerk doesn't even have to know how the References header works; they just do self-replies until they've maxed out the thread. Somebody who wants to reply to a "closed" thread just truncates the References header to an acceptable count. If you keep state on the server, the "jerk" method (as well as more subtle variants that would be harder to assign blame for) still "works". ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp