Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads
There is also the problem of people just starting a new message with out using reply (or a digest user replying to the digest) which will place the message in a new thread.
This is why I made the comment that "per thread" limits really need to be combined with some form of over-all limit or new-thread limit to minimize the ability to "game" the system. Yes we can put limit on number of new threads one can start, but then we will have to decide how much....Won't it depend on type of list ? Should we be leaving it for list-admin to decide?
-- Richard Damon
On 3/11/15 3:23 AM, Aanand Shekhar Roy wrote:
There is also the problem of people just starting a new message with out using reply (or a digest user replying to the digest) which will place the message in a new thread.
This is why I made the comment that "per thread" limits really need to be combined with some form of over-all limit or new-thread limit to minimize the ability to "game" the system. Yes we can put limit on number of new threads one can start, but then we will have to decide how much....Won't it depend on type of list ? Should we be leaving it for list-admin to decide?
-- Richard Damon
Most definitely, just as I hope the "per thread" limits are something the list-admin can control, as again, that is something very much list dependent. And again, those limits would be time rate based, not an absolute value.
-- Richard Damon
Most definitely, just as I hope the "per thread" limits are something the list-admin can control, as again, that is something very much list dependent. And again, those limits would be time rate based, not an absolute value. Okay, I will try to think about an appropriate way to handle this issue. You said that you run that kind of list where post-throttling will be welcomed. I had a query, would you, as a list admin, want few people, decided by you, to bypass this post-throttling mechanism?
On 3/11/15 8:47 AM, Aanand Shekhar Roy wrote:
Most definitely, just as I hope the "per thread" limits are something the list-admin can control, as again, that is something very much list dependent. And again, those limits would be time rate based, not an absolute value. Okay, I will try to think about an appropriate way to handle this issue. You said that you run that kind of list where post-throttling will be welcomed. I had a query, would you, as a list admin, want few people, decided by you, to bypass this post-throttling mechanism?
Personally, I wouldn't want to specify a list of people to bypass the throttling, as that would be seen as taking sides, but I could imagine some list admins seeing it as useful.
On the other hand, I could see a use for putting selected people on throttling, with everyone else by default off (as an alternative to putting someone on moderation).
The one address that I wouldn't want throttled would be my "official" address as list-admin, but it wouldn't have enough posts on it to trigger the limits anyway.
-- Richard Damon
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