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It might not catch everyone, but it will catch the major on-list purveyors
of uncivil behavior...Is there a way to flag an email address which has
repeatedly posted to a single thread in one day? It's fairly likely that
someone who's responded more than 5 times isn't responding necessarily to
the original message, especially if there is another person who is
responding in kind.
If people are being uncivil offlist, I believe that Eric should *not* be an
arbitrator. We're adults, and if you're getting into petty arguments with
someone offlist, then you and that person should work it out - not complain
to Eric like some 6-year-old tattling on his sister.
Posting limits in general are a bad idea - there are too many reasons
against it, including threading for the archives, suppression of answers to
questions, et cetera...
If civility is going to be an issue between professionals (I've not really
noticed a huge amount on this list), then I'd say the list has outlived it's
usefulness...
> -----Original Message-----
> I'm told there is currently a posting limit in place. (Haven't hit
> it, so I don't know what it is.) Start with that. Every time
> someone posts something that raises Eric's blood pressure*, that
> person's posting limit is decreased by 1. Eventually, nit-pickers
> will have a limit of zero and Eric will have the time and energy to
> join in the conversations again.
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