Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
> Is it to throttle spam or something? 50 seems rather low, and it's
> rather depressing to have a lively discussion throttled like that. Not
>
>   


Pretty sure it wasn't depressing to the vast majority of the listserv 
audience.  That was/is a discussion that benefited from a "timeout 
period", like you give the pre-schoolers.