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

[Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.]

Dear Klaus,

supposedly we have the first ChAC call in a few days (still have not see 
a formal invitation). Lets hope the call goes so well, it is full of 
ideas and we can motivate a great deal of volunteers to keep working on 
Cross Chapters issues, that we may congratulate ourselves afterwards for 
the time spent online.

best regards

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
ISOC Costa Rica
+506 8837 7176
Skype: carlos.raulg
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On 7 May 2016, at 1:07, 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
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