[ncdnhc-discuss] Limit email sending....

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

I don't approve of posting limits.  If we have to have posting limits, I'd
prefer them to be simple, clear, objective (e.g. number of post per day).
A larger, but not infinite, limit for Adcom members strikes me as
essential.

I oppose content-based rules as too costly to enforce, the cause of
time-wasting debate (such as this), and -- not least -- wrong in
principle.

The ideal limit would be mechanized (e.g. hold posts over the limit from
one address until some time had passed, or -- better yet-- return them to
sender).  Procmail can do this if we use a unix-based mail server.  It
should not be 'selectively' enforced.  If you want to temper justice with
mercy, write a routine that sends a warning for the first N offenses in a
given time period before implementing the guillotine.

In general, if the rule can't be described in pseudo-code that would run
without a human in the loop [regardless of how one actually plans to
implement it, which is a separate problem], then it's a bad bad bad rule.

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rob Courtney wrote:

> I would feel OK with a per-day e-mail limit that's selectively 
> enforced, sort of like traffic cops selectively enforce the speed 
> limit. It's not a silver bullet but it is objective and fair, and if 
> it doesn't work we can get rid of it.
> 

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