Hi Pedro, > Within ISOC's Code of Conduct, we can find a very useful and interesting > prescription:/"*Only send a message to the entire list if everyone can > benefit from it*. Do not send “thank you” and “me too” replies to the > full list"./ I do find it rather ironic, considering the ISOC chapter leaders lists are flooded with congratulations every time a chapter announced election results (something that typically occurs once a year for each chapter). > Considering the growing number of messages that end up filling our > mailboxes here in the NCSG community, I would kindly like to suggest, > and check if others agree, that we also adopt this as a good practice. > This is not the same as saying that we should not promote these nice > gestures of recognizing others' work and good ideas, but only that these > messages would be better directed only to the person who will surely > appreciate them, not to the whole list. Thank you for bringing this up - I haven't wanted to do that as I know it can be a cultural thing, and I am culturally doubly biased (coming from Finland that has a pretty minimalist/efficient communication culture, and being a geek/techie). There is definitely a place for the congratulations and welcomes, but perhaps we need separate lists for the social stuff and for the admin/policy stuff? On that note, it is also nice to have people say hello and where they are from in the chat on the NCSG calls, but I think the right place for that is in the few minutes in the beginning before the actual agenda gets going. Once a discussion is ongoing, a sudden "Hello from Reykjavik" can disrupt the flow of discussion. Julf