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Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads?

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On Sat, Mar 26, 2022, at 15:43, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Hi, 
>
>> (adding listmaster to Cc: as I don't know how flexible our mailing list software would be)
>> 
>> The OSM foundation seems to have a feature in its mailing list software, where, in contentious situations (e.g. during board elections campaigning periods), posters are throttled to one message every 24 hours.
>> 
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2021-December/008248.html
>> 
>> At the time, it seemed to me like an interesting idea that we could be experimenting with to keep flamewars somewhat more contained.
> You are a bit too late, we have such a system for one or two decades. 

Thanks for pointing it out, this is useful to know. Is this documented somewhere
that I c/should have found ?

> We can throttle mails down based on everything procmail can choose. We usually
> do this from time to time to throttle down threads based on subject.

Ack. I must admit I've stopped being familiar with procmail for a while. Could
you confirm that enacting a limit of 1 message per sender per day on a given
mailing list (or thread) would be doable without too much extra development?

Is this something that you would consider doing if the Community Team, or DAM,
or other members of the project, were to ask for it?

Thanks again for your work as listmaster,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont

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  Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-03-25 09:20 +0100
    Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2022-03-25 13:00 +0100
      How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? (Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.) Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 00:30 +0100
        Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? (Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-26 08:10 +0100
        Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? "Nicolas Dandrimont" <olasd@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 15:10 +0100
          Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 16:00 +0100
            Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? "Nicolas Dandrimont" <olasd@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 17:10 +0100
    Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Brian Thompson <brt9023@gmail.com> - 2022-03-26 16:10 +0100
      Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 18:00 +0100
        Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-03-26 18:40 +0100

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