[arin-discuss] Restricting postings to one per day and three per week

[Steve Bertrand]

> i still don't like it.  you'd essentially say that
> anyone who wanted to be able to freely address
> comments to arin's membership, also had to address
> those comments to the public.  ppml is a public
> forum.  i'm talking about an open membership forum,
> which is what arin-discuss@ currently is.

Either that, or discussions would get extremely fragmented.

If a member felt they *needed* to reply a message and were over their
quota, they would likely do a reply-all and remove the -discuss list.

This would most likely cause even more confusion and frustration than
what is present now as nobody would be able to follow an entire thread
in it's entirety.

I wouldn't even go as far as to say moderation would be better, as then
you would have a governing body who at it's sole discretion could decide
whether a member's comment was appropriate or not.

It's up to the members to decide whether another member's opinion is
valid and appropriate. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion, and
limiting and/or blocking someones opinion would (IMHO) detract from the
purpose of this list entirely.

Steve