Limitations on email for Find a Crew

What do you think about tracking both the user sending the email and the users receiving the email in CiviCRM as an Activity Type and base the sending quota on that? Then you'd have that information available fo reporting.

We like the idea of being able to track users sending crew connect emails and those receiving it. Having the data for reporting purposes is also a plus. Why would a sending quota be necessary? How would an acceptable quota be determined.

Sonia

Initially was thinking it would be an optional variable like Drupal.org's contact tab. I think you can only send 10 emails using the contact form to other Drupal users per hour. This is to limit the impact of spammers when they actually go through the trouble of signing up for an account. Usually by hour 2, the account is disabled. The needs is a little different here, but the goal is basically the same. Don't allow one user to annoy all the people who've volunteered with dozens of requests each week.

The admin form would be have a field for X number of bulk requests to volunteers and select list per hour|day|week|month. Leaving it blank would keep everything working the way it does now.

This feature would be added as part of an optional submodule so that the main Crew Connect functionality would still work without CiviCRM.