Come on guys, I was just getting my popcorn ready.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We have now used one third of today's allocation in discussing the
> size of the daily allocation. Just sayin', is all.
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> On 28 October 2010 01:04, Peter Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > David --
> >
> > I think we need to test the last assumption against the real code. While
> it is a rational (so to speak) interpretation, the code might be buggy
> enough to not let any messages through -- including the first -- when the
> limit is set to 0.
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:47 PM, David Fiander wrote:
> >>
> >> Ray, I think that the constraint makes more sense as a positive real
> number.
> >> While the length of a thread will never be exactly a non-integer length,
> it
> >> will eventually exceed any finite real-valued limit imposed, which is
> all
> >> that's necessary.
> >>
> >> (Actually, the "non-negative" part is optional. A limit that is <= 0
> will
> >> still allow the first message through before the list is throttled.)
> >>
> >> - David
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 18:18, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think the constraint is that it has to be a rational number.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> >>> Eric
> >>> Hellman
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:58 PM
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia
> >>>
> >>> I vote for changing the limit threshold to
> >>>
> >>> PI * (eventual length of this meta-thread).
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Doran, Michael D <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Can that limit threshold be raised? If so, are there reasons why it
> >>> should not be raised?
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>> to mention I thought I was simply kicked out for living things up
> >>>> (especially given my reasonable follow-up was where the throttling
> >>>> began).
> >>>>
> >>>> Alex
> >>>> --
> >>>> Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic
> >>>> Maps
> >>>> --- http://shelter.nu/blog/
> >>>> ----------------------------------------------
> >>>> ------------------
> http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen
> >>>> ---
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> >>> Eric Hellman
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> >>>
> >
> >
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