A request to the ISOC staffers and ISOC chapter officers - when you send notes that may trigger congratulations response, could you, please, add in the beginning a line that says, "as agreed on this list, we know that by default you congratulate us; no need to send congrats <span></span>on the list"? <br><br>On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Veni Markovski <<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Strongly agree. <div>We can simply accept the rule that by defaul we all congratulate each and everyone on any such occasion. My suggestion is to stop entirely replying to all with the usual "+1", and only email the list if we don't agree with a concrete congratulation. I can't imagine such situation, but just in case. </div><div><br></div><div>So, silent congratulation? Almost like silent agreement. <span></span><br><br>On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Klaus Birkenbihl <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Klaus.Birkenbihl@isoc.de');" target="_blank">Klaus.Birkenbihl@isoc.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear chapter delegates,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<ol>
<li>we are good</li>
<li>we could do more</li>
<li>we are steadily improving</li>
</ol>
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>
<br>
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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Klaus Birkenbihl
Treasurer and Board member
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (<a href="http://ISOC.DE" target="_blank">ISOC.DE</a>)
c/o ict-Media GmbH
<a href="http://www.isoc.de/" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.de/</a></pre>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>Best,<br>Veni<br><a href="http://veni.com" target="_blank">http://veni.com</a><br><a href="https://facebook.com/venimarkovski" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/venimarkovski</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/veni" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/veni</a><p>***<br>The opinions expressed above <br>are those of the author, not of <br>any organizations, associated <br>with or related to him in <br>any given way.<br>***</p><p><br>== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the touchscreen keyboard. Also, that's the reason for using short words and phrases. <br></p><p></p>
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Best,<br>Veni<br><a href="http://veni.com">http://veni.com</a><br><a href="https://facebook.com/venimarkovski">https://facebook.com/venimarkovski</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/veni">https://twitter.com/veni</a><p>***<br>The opinions expressed above <br>are those of the author, not of <br>any organizations, associated <br>with or related to him in <br>any given way.<br>***<p><br>== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the touchscreen keyboard. Also, that's the reason for using short words and phrases. <br></p></p>