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

[Veni Markovski]

A request to the ISOC staffers and ISOC chapter officers - when you send
notes that may trigger congratulations response, could you, please, add in
the beginning a line that says, "as agreed on this list, we know that by
default you congratulate us; no need to send congrats on the list"?

On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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/
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best,
> Veni
> http://veni.com
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>
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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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Best,
Veni
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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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