thread-throttling (feature idea, needs more thought)
Elsewhere in the intertubes I know of a great list that oft suffers from the all too common thread-gone-wild effect. This got me thinking about a Mailman feature request... but it needs more thought to assess it's validity. ;-)
What if Mailman had a thread-throttling feature where after a preset number of posts, further posts (with same msgid or Subject, etc.) would automatically induce a queuing delay. Obviously this would need a few points of configuration, these things come to my mind: regexps for posters to never throttle regexps for posters to always throttle throttle method (ascending, static, %load, etc) throttle delay (minimum seconds?) a pck to store recent msgids/subjects/etc for past 24 hours
Note: this has nothing to do with bandwidth throttling, but rather conversation throttling. The idea is to auto inject pauses into heated and passionate discussions.
Like I said, some things remain to talk through.... but I think there is a gem in there. Thoughts?
-Jim P.
Jim Popovitch writes:
I think this would just lead to people mail-bombing the admins instead of the list. :-)
The other issue I can think of is that when I think back on the cases where in hindsight I really wish I'd had a 15 minute delay on the SEND key mostly occurred on lists with a substantial management component. It would be really nasty if a feature intended to keep hotheads like me from embarrassing themselves instead suddenly slowed a discussion of how to deal with an ongoing DDOS attack or the like.
Now, if you were proposing a feature where Mailman would notice that I've posted to a thread 3 times in fifteen minutes and mail me a polite notice "are you really sure you need to post to this thread three times in fifteen minutes?!", *that* I could really go for! It wouldn't even have to work for other people.<wink>
Or to paraphrase an old George Carlin schtick, "Stop me before I [post] again!"
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:24 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Actually I like that idea very much. It could cause the hot-heads to wait a minute for a confirmation email with a URL to click to before continuing. Hmmmmm.
Thanks!
-Jim P.
Jim Popovitch writes:
I think this would just lead to people mail-bombing the admins instead of the list. :-)
The other issue I can think of is that when I think back on the cases where in hindsight I really wish I'd had a 15 minute delay on the SEND key mostly occurred on lists with a substantial management component. It would be really nasty if a feature intended to keep hotheads like me from embarrassing themselves instead suddenly slowed a discussion of how to deal with an ongoing DDOS attack or the like.
Now, if you were proposing a feature where Mailman would notice that I've posted to a thread 3 times in fifteen minutes and mail me a polite notice "are you really sure you need to post to this thread three times in fifteen minutes?!", *that* I could really go for! It wouldn't even have to work for other people.<wink>
Or to paraphrase an old George Carlin schtick, "Stop me before I [post] again!"
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:24 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Actually I like that idea very much. It could cause the hot-heads to wait a minute for a confirmation email with a URL to click to before continuing. Hmmmmm.
Thanks!
-Jim P.
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