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

[CW Mail]

I suggest that it would be more polite if congratulations were normally addressed bilaterally to the person or persons concerned.
Quite apart from the unnecessary traffic, there is something invidious about advertising personal sentiments in this way; and thus putting pressure on others who may be instinctively more discrete.

In the more general context <+1> and similar, are designed to invite confirmation and promote consensus. Which is fine, but not appropriate for personal messages.

Just a thought

CW


On 07 May 2016, at 15:22, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> 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:
>> we are good
>> we could do more
>> 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
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