<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I suggest that it would be more polite if congratulations were normally addressed bilaterally to the person or persons concerned.<div>Quite apart from the unnecessary traffic, there is something invidious about advertising personal sentiments in this way; and thus putting pressure on others who may be instinctively more discrete.</div><div><br></div><div>In the more general context <+1> and similar, are designed to invite confirmation and promote consensus. Which is fine, but not appropriate for personal messages.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought</div><div><br></div><div>CW</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 07 May 2016, at 15:22, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com">ocl@gih.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Dear Klaus,<br>
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the alternative would be to mandate that congratulatory messages
need to have the word "congrats" or "congratulations" in the subject
line so filters can put them in a special festive folder in your
mailbox.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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Dear chapter delegates,<br>
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great things are happening. BOT elections, chapter leaders get
elected and many of us want to express their enthusiastic
appreciation and <b>congratulate</b> the winners. They don't
address them in person since there is this wonderful
Chapter-delegates mailing list. Writing to the list will reach the
addressees and has the wonderful side effect that other members of
the list can participate and learn 100+ ways to say "<b>congratulations</b>"
in English. Frankly I think has a much bigger potential than we
use today. Since I don't have the exact figures and my math is not
very good I'll work with some reasonable assumptions for an
estimation of what we could achieve.<br>
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Let's assume there are 120 chapters, Let's further assume there
are 4 officers av. of each chapter on chapter delegates. Let's
assume further that every chapter has a 2 years election period.
And lets assume that every member on the chapters delegates list
due-fully sends <b>congrats</b> to the list after an election. So
here the calculation:<br>
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120/2 elections/year * 400 chapter delegates (sender) * 400
chapter delegates (receiver) = 9.6Mio mails a year or 27K mails
per day or 18 mails per minute. Looking at the <b>congrats</b>
traffic we generate today I state:<br>
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<li>we are good</li>
<li>we could do more</li>
<li>we are steadily improving</li>
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Just <b>90%</b> of the most recent 50 mails on Chapter-delegates
were of type <b>congrats</b>. Not only to further improve this
value and approach the estimated max but also to avoid conflicts
with all ignorant participants on the list, who consider messages
of type <b>congrats</b> as a subclass of type <b>spam</b><i> </i>I'd
like to propose to have a mailing list dedicated to this type of
messages.<br>
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Any suggestions for tutorials and other educational means on how
to use this mailing list - once it is set up - for messages of
type <b>congrats</b> are very welcome.<br>
<br>
Looking forward ...<br>
<br>
Klaus<br>
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Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
c/o ict-Media GmbH
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