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    <p>Hello Lia,</p>
    <p>it would be quite good to share (and later update) the actual
      strategy. <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>I think I can be close to 100% handing over probes in Prague (or
      Amsterdam) - with questionable service improvement, or more to 90%
      loss handing over probes in Burkina Faso, Cambodia - with huge
      service improvement in those countries.<br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Countries (ASes) may be somehow added into ambassador scoring. <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>            With kind regards</p>
    <p>                    Michal<br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08.07.2024 12:20, Lia Hestina wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Hello Johan,</font>
        <div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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        <div><span
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style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">I
                completely understand why you feel this way about your
                first batch of probes. We're currently developing a
                strategy for deploying RIPE Atlas probes to improve the
                network so we can better serve the ambassador community
                and we'll be sharing this plan soon. </span></font></span></div>
        <div><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We're
                also working on the ambassador probe admin to allow you
                to write off probes that are end-of-life, lost, or
                broken. This will help us better understand the
                distribution and data too, </span><span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">as
                well as serve as a basis for distributing new probes. </span></font></span></div>
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style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank
                you for this feedback and continued support.</span></font></span><br>
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style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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        <div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#2b2e2f"><span
              style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Regards,</span></font></div>
        <div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#2b2e2f"><span
              style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Lia</span></font></div>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at 15:15,
          Johan Bogg <<a href="mailto:johan@bogg.nu"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">johan@bogg.nu</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">Well I like the monthly report, it makes me
            feel inadequate and a bit terrible seeing my first batch of
            probes all are dead now 10 years later and I can't seem to
            get another batch to hand out...</div>
          <br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at
              14:47, Lia Hestina <<a href="mailto:lhestina@ripe.net"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">lhestina@ripe.net</a>>
              wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr"><span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Dear
                  Chris,</span><br
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                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Thanks
                  for your email. The last report we sent out was on
                  March 1. Since then, we paused sending the monthly
                  report as we prepared to adhere with the new
                  requirements for bulk email senders. We posted a RIPE
                  Labs article with information about this topic:</span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <a rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-ncc/"
style="font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-ncc/</a><span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">to</span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">We
                  are also still looking for feedback from ambassadors
                  on whether the report is useful or should be
                  discontinued. Once we receive enough input, we will
                  use it to help us form a more effective and non-spammy
                  report. </span><br
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                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Many
                  thanks for your insightful input and for letting us
                  know you still want to receive the report.</span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span><br
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Kind
                  regards,</span><br
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                <span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Lia
                  Hestina</span><br>
                <div><span
style="color:rgb(43,46,47);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">RIPE
                    NCC</span></div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at
                  13:41, Chris Carini <<a
                    href="mailto:chris@chriscarini.com" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">chris@chriscarini.com</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr">I, too, have not received a monthly
                    Ambassador Report email since January of this year -
                    I had assumed it was stopped for some reason. I'd
                    like to receive them again, if possible. Given there
                    are a handful of folks chiming in here stating they
                    have not received emails, it makes me wonder if
                    there was some issue when migrating to "the new
                    system that activates the reports" you mentioned -
                    perhaps something for the RIPE team to investigate?
                    I'd personally like to start receiving these once
                    again.
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Q1: 1. Do you find the monthly ambassador
                      report useful in its current format?</div>
                    <div>A1: (answering based on the last report I
                      received, Jan of this year) Yes, slightly. I wish
                      the report was formatted more nicely - I'm a
                      visual person, and the report being completely
                      unformatted text makes it much more difficult to
                      process & digest.</div>
                    <div><br>
                      Q2: 2. Are there specific parts of the report you
                      find particularly helpful or relevant?<br>
                    </div>
                    <div>A2: I find the following helpful; (a) total
                      number of probes I've received, (b) connection
                      rate, (c) newly connected probes, if any, (d)
                      total connected probes, (e) historical ambassador
                      credits, (f) which events were attended, (g) which
                      probes are disconnected. I find the following
                      unhelpful; (A) the length of the reminder to tell
                      probe hosts "You might want to remind your hosts
                      who have not plugged in their probes or whose
                      probes are disconnected and advise them on what
                      steps to take to fix each issue here:
                      <link>" (suggestion: "You might want to
                      remind your hosts with disconnected probes what
                      steps to take: <link>"), (B) the
                      troubleshooting link that follows could have many
                      more entries, IMO, (C) "You have no probes with
                      known USB issues" - great, but its not useful to
                      me then, so omit it. I'd only want to know if I
                      have any that do have known issues, but otherwise
                      omit this please, (D) no mention of what to do now
                      that an ambassador has distributed all the probes
                      they were given (there used to be a mention of
                      what to do, but that seems to have gone away; is
                      that intentional because RIPE no longer wants the
                      Atlas network to grow? Is it because there is no
                      longer hardware available? Is it because RIPE
                      would prefer hosts use VMs instead? Is it just
                      something that was accidentally removed?) (E) a
                      second reminder, just above the 'probes that are
                      disconnected', that states "You have no ambassador
                      probes that are experiencing USB stick issues".</div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>I also agree with Gavin, an "exception report"
                      of sorts would be handy to have, too, depending on
                      what information it provided, and how actionable
                      it would be for ambassadors. More specifically,
                      I'd like to get an "exception report" that
                      contains (1) which probes were disconnected for a
                      longer period of time (once they have been
                      disconnected for longer than say 6 months), and
                      (2) what I can do about them. For (2), I'd want
                      there to be something actionable, and a way for me
                      to 'dismiss / ignore' this probe in future
                      "exception reports". For example, I gave a probe
                      to a colleague years ago whose house burnt down,
                      they are ok, however their probe is long gone - I
                      don't want / need reminders about this probe ever
                      again, as it no longer exists. If this was the
                      only probe that would show up in the "exception
                      report", I'd want a way to acknowledge "yes, I'm
                      aware or I know something is wrong. please do not
                      notify me of this probe being an 'exception'
                      again."</div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Best,</div>
                    <div>Chris</div>
                  </div>
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 2,
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                         1. Re: Ambassador Monthly Report (Gavin
                      Tweedie)<br>
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                      Message: 1<br>
                      Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 17:48:56 +0800<br>
                      From: Gavin Tweedie <<a
                        href="mailto:gav@narx.net" target="_blank"
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                      Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Ambassador
                      Monthly Report<br>
                      Message-ID: <<a
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                      Hey Lia,<br>
                      <br>
                      I haven't had an ambassador report since March
                      FYI.<br>
                      I'll own up that I don't read them. I'd be happy
                      to swap it for an <br>
                      exception report - what changed this week/month..
                      did a probe go offline <br>
                      and not come back?<br>
                      <br>
                      The ones that went dead years ago, are probably
                      long lost and not much <br>
                      can be done about, but as soon as one goes offline
                      for a few days/week - <br>
                      that'd be handy. A likely a lower aggregate email
                      volume.<br>
                      <br>
                      <br>
                      Gavin<br>
                      <br>
                      <br>
                      On 2/7/2024 4:22 pm, Lia Hestina wrote:<br>
                      > Hello Joe,<br>
                      ><br>
                      > The report was sent monthly to the email
                      address that the ambassador uses.<br>
                      > It contains the following information:<br>
                      > - News and update<br>
                      > - Statistics about probe distribution<br>
                      > - Connection rate of the distributed probes<br>
                      > - Credits<br>
                      > - Events you will be attending - when you tag
                      yourself here: <br>
                      > <a
href="https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences"
                        rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences</a><br>
                      ><br>
                      > Regards,<br>
                      > Lia Hestina<br>
                      > p.s. It seems like your email was not
                      connected to the (then) new <br>
                      > system that activates the report.<br>
                      ><br>
                      > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 09:10, Joe Abley <<a
                        href="mailto:jabley@strandkip.nl"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jabley@strandkip.nl</a>>
                      wrote:<br>
                      ><br>
                      >     Hi Lia,<br>
                      ><br>
                      >     I have never seen a monthly ambassador
                      report. I guess it's not<br>
                      >     sent to this list, since the archives
                      don't reveal any examples of<br>
                      >     it arriving here. Where is it sent?<br>
                      ><br>
                      ><br>
                      >     Joe<br>
                      ><br>
                      >>     On 2 Jul 2024, at 08:15, Lia Hestina
                      <<a href="mailto:lhestina@ripe.net"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">lhestina@ripe.net</a>>
                      wrote:<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     ?<br>
                      >>     Dear all,<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     You may have heard about the new
                      requirements for bulk email<br>
                      >>     senders based on changes made by
                      large email providers like<br>
                      >>     Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, which we
                      wrote about on RIPE Labs<br>
                      >>     [1]. Following these changes, we are
                      reviewing the emails that we<br>
                      >>     send out from RIPE Atlas. We want our
                      emails to be helpful and<br>
                      >>     contribute to your work.<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     Our monthly ambassador report
                      provides an update on the status of<br>
                      >>     the probes in your account and other
                      news. We would like hear:<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>      1. Do you find the monthly
                      ambassador report useful in its<br>
                      >>         current format?<br>
                      >>      2. Are there specific parts of the
                      report you find particularly<br>
                      >>         helpful or relevant?<br>
                      >><br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     Your answers will help us work out
                      how to best share this<br>
                      >>     information with you, whether in a
                      monthly update or another<br>
                      >>     format. If you have any questions,
                      please let us know.<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     Kind regards,<br>
                      >>     Lia Hestina<br>
                      >><br>
                      >>     [1]<br>
                      >>     <a
href="https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-ncc/"
                        rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-ncc/</a><br>
                      >>   
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href="https://mailman.ripe.net/"
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                      >
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