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

[Eduardo Diaz]

Lets put together a tutorial on how to send mails directly to the people
you want to congratulate without copying the rest of the world.

-ed
ISOC Puerto Rico

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <crg at isoc-cr.org>
wrote:

> 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
> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
> 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
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