list slowdown

James Crossley · 16 Aug 2010, 21:26 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:26:11 -0700
Subject: (urth) list slowdown
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikQYLOeDqxEAeddbVTfrFWuRY6PNh9Eq-=FGE-J at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C88EFB03.D24A%ishmael at drizzle.com>

Echoing and amplifying: Not that any one message or thread is to blame, but
this lurker completely agrees with what Mark's said. I'll be unsubscribing,
at least for a while.

James Crossley

On 8/16/10 1:59 PM, "Mark Millman" <markjmillman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I had forty-two distinct threads from the Urth List comprising one
> hundred ninety-three notes when I looked at my e-mail account today.
> I last looked on Friday around 5:00 pm, so taking the intervening time
> as three days, that's an average of fourteen threads and sixty-four
> notes per day.
> 
> Ranjit has asked, more than once, that people limit themselves to five
> messages per day, but apparently very few people have heeded him.
> 
> I'd be distressed to have to give up my subscription to the list, but
> I foresee that eventuality if this volume continues.
> 
> Mark Millman
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