[LAD] limiting email traffic

Hi all, Due to excessive posts - in particular on the linux-audio-user email list, we are going to rate-limit the number of emails to 13 emails per user per 24 hours with direct follows-up replies to self counting twice. It is not unreasonable to assume that a single user posting more than 12 emails per day is either involved in a heated flame-war or otherwise disrupting reasonable discussion. Neither of which is acceptable on the LA email lists. We understand that some communication requires rapid exchange of many small snippets and recommend users who need to regularly post short messages many times per day to rather use services such as twitter, IRC or simply private email. The LA email lists are mainly intended for discussion, questions & answers, sharing and preservation of knowledge. Note that there are currently over 3000 persons subscribing to the LA lists, every single email sent to the list will result in 3000+ forwards and be archived in various places on the web. Offenders will be notified with a warning message with the 10th email within a day and after the 13th email temporarily banned for 6 hours from further posting to the given email list. Feel free to comment on this email here on this list, but official inquires should be addressed to members of the consortium. See http://linuxaudio.org/contact The system will be activated on 31/Oct/2013 if not vetoed. The actual rate-limit may also be adjusted over time to reflect list-behaviour. yours truly, robin