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 >>> --- >> >> Eric Hellman >> President, Gluejar, Inc. >> 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 >> Montclair, NJ 07042 >> USA >> >> [log in to unmask] >> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ >> @gluejar >> -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Assistant Director http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/