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Narelle,<br>
I do agree with you. For your information Thanksgiving is Today :)<br>
I personally asked before for such initiative to not receive an amount
of undesirable emails.<br>
But I am not sure that a simple Wish email to persons and that does not
concern other is not a big deal that make you write all this :)<br>
I will send soon friendly and only-to-you email to wish you happy 26
Jan :)<br>
Khaled<br>
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Narelle Clark wrote:
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<p><font size="2">I think we need to write a formal list charter.<br>
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With a charter we can give formal and clear guidelines to list members
about things we appreciate being posted to chapter-delegates and things
we don't.<br>
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There is often traffic on the list which is well meaning, but in my
view not useful.<br>
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A group, or even our delightful employee Ann, should, off list, set to
drafting a charter and post it back for broader endorsement.<br>
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The charter should be included as the info file sent to all new
members, and occasionally back to the list to remind people of what is
on topic, and what is off topic.<br>
<br>
I really enjoy being part of ISOC, and very much value the strong
international contact and understanding it brings.<br>
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As such, the charter should highlight on list topics such as:<br>
- techniques to promote your chapter<br>
- joint submissions to international bodies<br>
- policy development methods n a chapter<br>
- fund raising methods for chapters<br>
- recommendations for running chapters<br>
etc<br>
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off topic (in my view) would be:<br>
- 'me too' posts unless actually voting on something<br>
- repeated congratulations to new chapters (this is tricky as we need
to introduce ourselves and our chapters regularly)<br>
- items of interest only to one chapter<br>
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Khaled, who is not alone in this type of thing (indeed I am sure I have
been one also, most certainly I have caused it!), has just posted well
wishes for what I presume is an obscure public holiday in one nation.<br>
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I apologise in advance to Khaled for seeming to single him out here.
Please accept that this is not personal towards Khaled.<br>
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We have some 92 active chapters, many of which representing separate
geographic regions. That leaves us with the possibility of some 92x n
public holidays. In addition, a number of us may observe astronomical
events, of which at least 4 annually are very significant. 10 chapters
only are in North America, and assuming only 5 are in the US (excluding
Canada and Mexico) then that leaves some 5 that might observe that
particular public holiday. Excuse me again if I have jumped to a
conclusion here, as I have no idea when the US Thanksgiving Day is, how
it is observed, or even who really observes it, just that it is
sometime at the end of the year.<br>
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FYI - public holidays I care about are: Australia (aka Invasion) Day 26
Jan, Anzac Day 25 April, New Years (Federation) Day 1 Jan and I admire
the Solstices and other astronomical events. I do not expect well
wishes for them on this list, though I would encourage people to post
descriptions of chapter events conducted to mark such things,
particularly if they work well and act as examples to us all.<br>
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<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
<br>
Narelle<br>
VP ISOC-AU<br>
<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Khaled KOUBAA<br>
Sent: Thu 11/22/2007 7:26 AM<br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a><br>
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Happy Thanksgiving<br>
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Hey All,<br>
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I wish you happy Thanksgiving<br>
<br>
Khaled<br>
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