[Chapter-delegates] Plea for a "congrats" mailing list

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Klaus,

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.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 07/05/2016 09:07, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:
> Dear chapter delegates,
>
> great things are happening. BOT elections, chapter leaders get elected
> and many of us want to express their enthusiastic appreciation and
> *congratulate* 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
> "*congratulations*" 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.
>
> 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 *congrats* to the list after an election. So here the calculation:
>
> 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 *congrats* traffic we generate today
> I state:
>
>  1. we are good
>  2. we could do more
>  3. we are steadily improving
>
> Just *90%* of the most recent 50 mails on Chapter-delegates were of
> type *congrats*. 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 *congrats* as
> a subclass of type *spam*//I'd like to propose to have a mailing list
> dedicated to this type of messages.
>
> Any suggestions for tutorials and other educational means on how to
> use this mailing list - once it is set up - for messages of type
> *congrats* are very welcome.
>
> Looking forward ...
>
> Klaus
> -- 
> Klaus Birkenbihl
> Treasurer and Board member
> Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
> c/o ict-Media GmbH
> http://www.isoc.de/
>
>
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