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From: dat@hpcnof.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: AI search and recruitment
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 22:48:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 22:48:00 1985
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Terry,

	I have to disagree.  I think that the stated purpose of net.jobs 
is for "jobs announcements, requests, etc" and that a personnel agency 
posting a note telling the world at large that they're willing to help 
place people in challenging new positions is within that purpose.

*leaping onto my handy soapbox*

	As far as paying for free advertising...all the policing in the
world isn't going to stop it, and I think that if the postings are
relevent and reasonable (and short!) then I'm not adverse to having
them.

	The bottom line is that the net is a FREE system without any
constraints on postings, and I'd much rather see a few adverts than 
the usual drivel out of the mouths of babes at some of the random
sites on the nets...or the garbage in net.sources....or better yet, 
try to imagine how much HP is willing to pay to keep net.flame or 
net.sources.mac afloat versus this type of posting...

	As far as their 'unmitigated gall' (I could hear it in my
head, sorry) for posting, so what?  Are they to wait until a long
time in the future to have the air clear?

	I hate to get on your case, Terry, but I think that the
net is already far too cluttered, and if we're going to start
policing it, there are many other things that offend me more and
cost us more money than a 27 line (or thereabouts) posting from
a company that people who read this group are probably quite 
interested in learning about.

	On the other hand, I do encourage the personnel groups to
minimize the length of their postings...

	Speaking of which, why is it okay for, say, NCR to post a
job opening but not an agency?  What's the fundamental difference?

	*Climbing off of my soapbox*

	If we all just learned to be more mellow, I think the world
would be a far better place to live...

					-- Dave Taylor
					Hewlett Packard

Needless to say, the views I express are probably not shared by Bill, Dave,
John Young or any of the executive council here at HP.  *sigh*