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

Sun May 8 12:08:38 PDT 2016

I agree with the initial proposal to stop distributing congratulations on the list, and with Christopher's additional remarks.

Jean-Jacques.

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De: "Alex Corenthin" <alex.corenthin at isoc.sn>
À: "Richard Hill" <rhill at hill-a.ch>
Cc: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Envoyé: Samedi 7 Mai 2016 21:27:15
Objet: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Plea for a "congrats" mailing list

+1 

Alex Corenthin 
Président ISOC Sénégal 

Département Génie Informatique (ESP - UCAD) 
BP 11542 Dakar-Peytavin (Senegal) 
Tel : +221 338242005 

Le 7 mai 2016 à 16:27, Richard Hill < rhill at hill-a.ch > a écrit : 

I agree with Veni. 

Best Richard 

Sent from Samsung Mobile. 

-------- Original message -------- 
From: Veni Markovski 
Date:07/05/2016 18:14 (GMT+01:00) 
To: Klaus Birkenbihl 
Cc: Chapter-delegates 
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Plea for a "congrats" mailing list 

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 > 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 http://www.isoc.de/ 

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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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Veni 
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https://twitter.com/veni 

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