<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hahaha 😂 <div><br></div><div>Happy day to you too <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">-<div><div>Jeffry S. Fernandez</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 15 Mar 2025, at 6:01 a.m., Klaus Birkenbihl via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Dear Chapter Leaders,<br>
</p>
<p>once upon a time ... In order to support its work for an open,
accessible, and strong Internet; in order to protect it against
monopolistic attacks from big companies; in order to foster
innovation, creativity and unexpected use, ISOC has set-up an
Advanced Membership administration System (AMS). It was
implemented carefully following open standards (as from IETF, W3C
...), providing excellent usability, privacy, and accessibility. A
carefully chosen Internet-canny and innovative medium size company
was mandated with the implementation. An internal group of ISOC
experts carefully supervised this work ... and they lived happily
ever after.</p>
<p>OK, just kidding. Seriously, back in 2020 ISOC had the audacious
idea to let members participate in the requirements analysis for
AMS. This was called Membernova Initiative. (To be fair: ISOC took
care that this did not effect much.) Membernova was the name of
the AMS used back then. In order to recognize the progress since
then a Membernova anniversary day was launched to be on March
15th. But Membernova is history now and so the anniversary had to
be renamed in 2024. The new name is "AMS celebration day".</p>
<p>There are too many open issues with AMS. E.g. unfortunately I'm
still not allowed to provide AMS with a list of registered Chapter
Members. So AMS has to live with fake data. And I have to admit
that my last year's promise, to show you how to register Chapter
Members with AMS, cannot be resolved therefor.<br>
</p>
<p>So I decided to make E-Mail communication within ISOC this year's
subject. Remember: with AMS we "make simple things complex again"
and mess it all up.</p>
<p>ISOC obviously uses different styles of group communication.
There is e.g. this Chapter-delegates mailing list. Members receive
messages to the mailing list and these are synchronized with the
Internet Society Chapter Portal. Simple filters allow to archive
and search messages with any modern mail client. Good so.</p>
<p>Not so other groups like Internet Policy, Community Portal
Updates and more. Mails go to my private Mail address sent by an
anonymous <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mailer@isoc.de">mailer@isoc.de</a> with an awesome "Reply to" something
like </p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:3uykghtxob3jjt10.6tazq4euh6jfcvrj@l1ef2ykhvgrduwm3.olow1.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com">3uykghtxob3jjt10.6tazq4euh6jfcvrj@l1ef2ykhvgrduwm3.olow1.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com</a>. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>And to make it even more transparent many mails end with:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><img src=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://cdn.mailscanner.info/1x1spacer.gif"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "cdn.mailscanner.info" claiming to be</b></font> "http://cdn.mailscanner.info/1x1spacer.gif"</a>
width="2" height="1" alt="Web Bug from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.internetsociety.org/servlet/eM=M">https://community.internetsociety.org/servlet/eM=M</a>... /><br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You know what? Mails containing a "1x1spacer.gif" are considered
trackers and classified as spam by my filters. (And my DNS blocks
cdn.mailscanner.info.)</p>
<p>Mails often end with: "We respect your right to privacy - view
our policy". which hold a link to e.g.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=3eea61e07305feba25a3e0b896d16568f693a88f5fe8b4728dd2782620aca1c488d971cd4b0dd92fdb2846741df7ff219139d284110d4e6a">https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=3eea61e07305feba25a3e0b896d16568f693a88f5fe8b4728dd2782620aca1c488d971cd4b0dd92fdb2846741df7ff219139d284110d4e6a</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>or </p>
<blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=3eea61e07305feba2e236580bb16e112b5220dbefb1c6641982304fd26f3b8d7f25dbd0d796bb0695e1c7bb67cfc285621382b95c3577db2">https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=3eea61e07305feba2e236580bb16e112b5220dbefb1c6641982304fd26f3b8d7f25dbd0d796bb0695e1c7bb67cfc285621382b95c3577db2</a>. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Obviously there are many links to ISOC's privacy policy. "Honi
soit qui mal y pense" as our french colleagues would comment.</p>
<p>Beside of this there is much more progress. E.g. I used to
receive E-Mails containing contact data for individuals who
expressed interest in a Chapters membership. I used to process
these mails by a script to welcome people and inform about our fee
policy. Most people lost their interest in a membership when they
read "fee" and where dropped from our database automatically. With
the new AMS these mails were discontinued. When I complained mails
were sent again. Good so? The only message in the new mails is
"somebody has expressed interest". Privacy by ISOC.</p>
<p>I also hate to be subscribed to lists or groups automatically.
I'd prefer opt-in - just to keep track - but being registered by
default. But that's another story.</p>
<p>Long live salesforce.com! Don't worry and have a happy AMS
celebration day,<br>
</p>
<p>Klaus<br>
<br>
</p>
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Klaus Birkenbihl
Internet Society German Chapter (ISOC.DE) e.V.
c/o ict-Media GmbH
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.isoc.de">https://www.isoc.de</a></pre>
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