synchro1 wrote:
> We tried a short-term solution that turned into a long-term cure.
> I'm not sure if this software feature would be available in a new
> forum but what we did was impose a 5 post-a-day limit (on a rolling
> 24 hours) on everyone.  With over 1500 subscribers, our thinking was
> no one person needed to speak to that many people more than 5 times a
> day anyway.  The result was, the tit-for-tat bursts of postings
> killed themselves and created an automated "time-out". 

This is possible with Majordomo II, which is the list software
used by Smoe.ORG, our list provider based in Boston, MA.

  - Michael