Hi, > (adding listmaster to Cc: as I don't know how flexible our mailing list > software would be) > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022, at 00:10, Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about we make that a feature and introduce a delay of a couple of > > hours between all messages in threads like this one ? > > 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. 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.
Alex
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