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To: Petz who wrote (60914)	10/29/2001 4:26:04 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Petz, that's a rather interesting piece of information. I wonder how many other people feel the same way. wanna_bmw

To: Petz who wrote (60914)	10/29/2001 4:43:53 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

Petz, "if Paul only posted a few times a day, he wouldn't bother me at all" I totally agree. It is a shame that the modern web chat software did not grow up to the challenge to limit number of posts based on some meaningful criteria. Even in old UseNet days many e-mail tools prohibited posting of a message if the number of text you contribute was far less than the text you quote, to save bandwidth. Same thing still holds today, I mean mental bandwidth. Paul's behavior reminds me of one young Intel employee I witnessed at some conference. A reputable professor, who helped to pioneer the concept of trace caches, was lecturing on the topic exploring variety of options and their advantages and disadvantages. The young fella (of the heavy asian descent BTW) has taken a liberty to interrupt the lecturer almost at every other word, shouting from his seat that this or that is not correct and does not match what apparently Intel was doing at the time. It was absolutely ugly experience, so the presiding chair has to tell the fella that he could re-define everything when he will grow up to be in the position to lecture on the topic. In any assembly a person usually has no right to speak whenever he feels an urge - it violates equal representation of opinions. I can think of an automatic rule that would suspend a poster/speaker from posting until a representative number of other members who elected to speak up their opinion, or the posting right could be restored after certain reasonable timeout. Although I am not sure if SI is capable to implement this restriction these days, so it is just an idea for future. - Ali