<div dir="ltr">Lets put together a tutorial on how to send mails directly to the people you want to congratulate without copying the rest of the world. <div><br></div><div>-ed</div><div>ISOC Puerto Rico</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Klaus,<br>
<br>
supposedly we have the first ChAC call in a few days (still have not see<br>
a formal invitation). Lets hope the call goes so well, it is full of<br>
ideas and we can motivate a great deal of volunteers to keep working on<br>
Cross Chapters issues, that we may congratulate ourselves afterwards for<br>
the time spent online.<br>
<br>
best regards<br>
<br>
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br>
ISOC Costa Rica<br>
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On 7 May 2016, at 1:07, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:<br>
<br>
> Dear chapter delegates,<br>
><br>
> great things are happening. BOT elections, chapter leaders get elected<br>
> and many of us want to express their enthusiastic appreciation and<br>
> **congratulate** the winners. They don't address them in person since<br>
> there is this wonderful Chapter-delegates mailing list. Writing to the<br>
> list will reach the addressees and has the wonderful side effect that<br>
> other members of the list can participate and learn 100+ ways to say<br>
> "**congratulations**" in English. Frankly I think has a much bigger<br>
> potential than we use today. Since I don't have the exact figures and<br>
> my math is not very good I'll work with some reasonable assumptions<br>
> for an estimation of what we could achieve.<br>
><br>
> Let's assume there are 120 chapters, Let's further assume there are 4<br>
> officers av. of each chapter on chapter delegates. Let's assume<br>
> further that every chapter has a 2 years election period. And lets<br>
> assume that every member on the chapters delegates list due-fully<br>
> sends **congrats** to the list after an election. So here the<br>
> calculation:<br>
><br>
> 120/2 elections/year * 400 chapter delegates (sender) * 400 chapter<br>
> delegates (receiver) = 9.6Mio mails a year or 27K mails per day or 18<br>
> mails per minute. Looking at the **congrats** traffic we generate<br>
> today I state:<br>
><br>
> 1. we are good<br>
> 2. we could do more<br>
> 3. we are steadily improving<br>
> Just **90%** of the most recent 50 mails on Chapter-delegates were of<br>
> type **congrats**. Not only to further improve this value and approach<br>
> the estimated max but also to avoid conflicts with all ignorant<br>
> participants on the list, who consider messages of type **congrats**<br>
> as a subclass of type **spam** I'd like to propose to have a mailing<br>
> list dedicated to this type of messages.<br>
><br>
> Any suggestions for tutorials and other educational means on how to<br>
> use this mailing list - once it is set up - for messages of type<br>
> **congrats** are very welcome.<br>
><br>
> Looking forward ...<br>
><br>
> Klaus<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Klaus Birkenbihl<br>
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