[LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

[Dan Muresan]

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 <brummer- at 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-owner at 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
>
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