[LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

[Robin Gareus]

On 10/31/2013 04:19 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
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> Have the lists history been mined to see how many "valuable" users violate 
> this proposed policy one some days? Perhaps they go a week and then have 20 
> posts in one day and  then go another week?

Mined, no. The problem here is the definition of 'valuable'.

I did elaborated a bit more on this when addressing the consortium about
this:

"I've checked some random samples and found that no reasonable[...]
discussion on the LA lists in the last 2 years required more than 5
posts per user per day."
Now that's still somewhat subjective.

The current settings are rather conservative. With these, only four
persons would have received warnings (two of them repeatedly) in the
last two years, and only one would have been temporarily banned (also
more than once).

Anyway we intentionally chose a short ban time (6h). The idea is not to
snub or censor. Just to let things calm down a bit.

None of the persons who'd have  triggered the warning are high-profile
developers or major contributors to linux audio software architecture or
ecosystem.

ciao,
robin