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From: absary@watrose.UUCP (Al Sary)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Research in Reliable Distributed Computing
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 17:04:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 17:04:10 1985
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In article 1402 brett@alberta.UUCP (Brett Hammerlindl) writes:

> In article <1228@ihlpg.UUCP> dimario@ihlpg.UUCP (Michael J. DiMario) writes:
> >...
> >But, it may also be typical of European hiring practises. It is discouraging
> >to see such views on an American net.
> 
> net.jobs is a world-wide network.   
> That means is extented outside of the U.S.A.
> That means it is not "an American net".
> I am sure you offended hunderds of people on the net and
> fell an apology is in order.

I agree totally with Brett Hammerlindl.  Some people in the US seem to
think that "America" is the only place that counts.
Perhaps the statement "an American net" may apply to some networks but
certainly not to net.jobs to which people from all over the world subscribe.

I was also offended by "European hiring practices".  That phrase
generalizes a discriminatory statement made by one European company
(or university in this case) to all of Europe.  Saying that a company
discriminates because it's European is nothing better than saying
that an old person should get paid more than a young person. (don't 
misunderstand me here; I do agree with the original complaint against
discriminating based on age, or anything else for that matter, including
a person's hair style).

If you have nothing to say, don't say it.