[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[Mark Tinka]

I spend 20% of my e-mail time unsubscribing from lists I was signed on,
that I have zero clue about. I don't wonder how my e-mail address was
obtained (I mean, I could guess since Google'ing myself actually returns
a usable result), but I just don't have the time.

A further 10% of my e-mail time is ignoring Linkedin requests for people
I don't know and have no immediate connection with. I've found many of
those are just trying to grow their network, sell you something, or both.

I spend another 10% of my time ignoring and deleting e-mails from
companies that join industry meetings simply to sell you attendee lists
or to sell you airtime with other participants. ITW, PTC, Capacity * are
all victims of this, and this has now spread to our beloved NOG community.

I again spend another 7% of my e-mail time just ignoring or deleting
what I term "improper" correspondence. This has, in the past, included
e-mails from people asking me to vote a certain way for a number of
elections, all over the world, for a number of organizations (within and
outside of our industry). If I find the way in which you reached out to
me for this, especially if I don't know you, I just delete the e-mail
and move on. If I know you and feel you can do well for the community,
I'll advise you about doing better.

I then spend another 3% of my e-mail time ignoring discussions that
aren't going anywhere.

That leaves 50% of my e-mail time to do something actually constructive.
That's not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.

If we throw everyone in the slammer and not teach them how to do better,
we won't have anyone left to throw in the slammer or teach about how to
do better.

Bottom line, you can either spend your 24hrs in a day advancing a
meaningful objective, or not. I do a lot more of the former. Time on
this earth is limited... if I were drop dead right now, the mailboxes I
leave behind will still be half full of just nonsense.

Mark.

On 4/Jul/19 00:39, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:

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> Hi Noah,

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> I’m sure we all have contacts from lots of people from the community,

> but we use those contacts for the reason they have been provided, is

> not lawful to use those for anything else.

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> The point here is that even if I’ve your email because we have

> contected about operational issues of our networks (for example), I

> can use your email for selling you “fruits” or “a car” or “convince

> you about what candidates to the board you should vote”.

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> In fact, according to the GDPR (and in many countries even before the

> GDPR), if I’ve your email because you’re my customer for shoes, and

> tomorrow I setup a shop for fish, I can’t use your email for that. If

> instead of shoes it is clothes, it may depend on the original data

> that was provided about my business when you registered for the shoes.

> However, definitively I can’t use your email for sending you a support

> request for my prefered board candidates.

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> Anyway, there is a simple answer to all that. Can Ahmed, who send the

> original email, confirm if he provided it to the sender, for elections

> information or something else ?

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> Can other folks who got that email, confirm if they have provided it?

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> With just a few responses, we will be able to understand if that was

> part of an allowed communication or there is data protection issue.

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> Regards,

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> Jordi

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> @jordipalet

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> El 4/7/19 0:07, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz <mailto:noah at neo.co.tz>> escribió:

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> Hi Jordi,

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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:51 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via

> Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net

> <mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>> wrote:

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>     I’m angrier about this as much as I think on it again.

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> I hope you have come down.

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>     Can all the people that got those emails confirm if they have

>     provided voluntarily their emails or if they have participated in

>     Afrinic lists, or if those emails are part of their Afrinic

>     contacts, in order to understand if this personal data (emails are

>     personal data), have been collected from Afrinic internal databases.

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> I can confirm I did receive such similar emails from various

> candidates and some of their supporters seeking my vote. I can also

> confirm that my address book is full of contact email addresses of

> technical members of various communities. I for instance know most

> email addresses of technical people in my country and a few other

> countries in East and Southern Africa and I have exchanged emails with

> folks in the past and I still reach out to them often regarding

> various Internet related activities.

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> Cheers,

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> Noah

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