At 7:18 PM -0400 6/20/02, Roger Burton West is rumored to have typed:
I'm on (as a member, not an admin) one list of about 500 which limits its members to four posts per calendar day
But that's not what he talked about doing, though; he was refering to limiting, "TOTAL number of messages PER DAY on the list" (emphasis mine). This implies that, for example with an arbitrary limit of 50 messages per day, one guy could send 49 replies to the first message locking _everyone_ else out for the rest of the day. The inevitable result, it seems to me, is that the "squeaky wheels" would grab the lion's share of the "quota," leaving other subscribers out in the dust, ticked off and unsubscribing in droves.
Practically, a per-subscriber limit makes a little more sense (but, I think, would be more complex to write using SmartList as the list manager). A limit on _total_ postings per day would be (IMHO) an unmitigated disaster, albiet relatively trivial to hack together.
Charlie