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

[Veni Markovski]

Strongly agree.
We can simply accept the rule that by defaul we all congratulate each and
everyone on any such occasion. My suggestion is to stop entirely replying
to all with the usual "+1", and only email the list if we don't agree with
a concrete congratulation. I can't imagine such situation, but just in
case.

So, silent congratulation? Almost like silent agreement.

On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de> 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 GmbHhttp://www.isoc.de/
>
>

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== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the
touchscreen keyboard. Also, that's the reason for using short words and
phrases.
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