# What's your emails-per-day cutoff limit?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 23, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719 "2026-03-23T21:30:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719/21 "2026-03-26T18:03:18Z")

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On Wednesday Bret Devereaux posted a special off-schedule, non-historical post: “The War in Iran”. 342 replies in 36 hours. I give up.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719/22 "2026-03-26T18:32:44Z")

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Why are you trying to read blog replies in email? Can’t you go to his blog site & read there?

Email is for two-way communication, not for passive content consumption. Imagine having the entire NY Times emailed to your client every day. Sounds wacky.

If you keep your email to actual two-way communication and use other tech for things that are in effect newspaper or magazine or blog subscriptions, you’ll have a much easier time managing your total information flow to your liking.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719/23 "2026-03-26T22:38:20Z")

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The ACOUP blog replies are organized by tree, meaning that it’s difficult to pick out new replies without rereading the whole thing. The email updates (when there aren’t a zillion of them) are a convenient way to follow up on new replies.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-emails-per-day-cutoff-limit/1028719/24 "2026-03-26T23:53:31Z")

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Ouch!

I used to participate in a very active tree-structured board. So hard to keep up with.

My sympathies; that’s a genuinely hard problem if you truly care about the content. As I used to do where I was.

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