coan.net: It is relative
For one person 200 games is too much, for another 2000 is not enough ...

coan.net: Having two or three timeouts is not the problem - it has happened (against me) when playing games with "1 day moves, no days off" and suddenly have to be out of town for three days at a funeral, with no computer access. And I only had 12 games running at the time. The problem is people who have one or more timeouts every week.

pgt: How about something like a timeout ratio (if that is even possible to program). This way, one or two timeouts wouldn't matter, but massive timeouts would

El Cid: I personally have no problem with people timing out.. my problem is with people who don't time out and take forever and get all these auto vacation days kick in.
I think vacation should be scheduled not automatic.

grenv: The only problem I have with timeouts is on the beginning of the year, when everybody gets the vacation days "refilled", and many times we have to wait about two months with the game on top of the "your opponents turn" list. The purpose of auto-vacation if to prevent timeouts due to "unforeseen" events, and at the moment, to prevent the exploit in vacation that was possible when vacation were scheduled...
And as for the people who take forever and don't timeout, as was previously (before this conversation) said if they are within the allowed time, they can take all of the time (I admit I often do that with games such as espionage or chess variants), although I also agree it's kind of frustrating in things like backgammon when there is only one possible move, and your opponent has only 3 or 4 games in his/her turn