Posted by RosieOGrady on October 1, 2004, at 11:07:50
I have no objections to you posting to me if you should ever want to. I'm sorry I made that request.
I think there was just a misunderstanding. When I see someone posting consecutively I would assume they want to communicate and are available and feel more inclined to post to them rather than inhibited from posting as in Bob's theory. My post meant did you have any more ideas about the subject of thread limits. I was expecting you to ask what I thought also but maybe you are right and I should have offered my opinions first.
Personally I think posting limits are not needed. I never saw a problem with multiple posts or felt inhibited in any way. As a newcomer I feel most inhibited rather by very long threads with only a limited number of participants. It seems like it would be a logical extension of Bob's policy to say there can be no more than 6 consecutive posts by 2 people or 9 consecutive posts by a total of 3 people of 12 consecutive posts by 4 people etc. without the introduction of a new poster. I would not be in favour of that either though. I just don't see a problem.
As far as your need to post in multiple sequences. I can understand that and wondered if you could e-mail yourself a post at a time and then cut and paste them in one post? I e-mail myself sometimes as thoughts occur to me. I offer this suggestion not in any attempt to circumvent either the letter or the spirit of Dr Bob's rule but just as a practical way of accomodating your special needs. I think you are asset to babble and would not like to see you unable to participate.
For people who have a problem following multiple post threads I would suggest the PB Extra
http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/extras.pl
which allows all the post in one thread to be read at once. I have found this useful.
I wish you the best.
poster:RosieOGrady
thread:397840
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