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From: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: AI search and recruitment
Message-ID: <423@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 08:03:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 08:03:25 1985
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References: <153@mdee.UUCP> <4300008@iuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@helheim.UUCP (David F. Carlson)
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The difference between a new product announcement and what mdee!root posted
is:

1)  Since mdee is established enough to be on the net (ie own an expensive not
necessarily indespensible computer) it is reasonable to assume that their 
company has been in the AI search game for a while.  Therefore what they offer
is *not* a *new product*.

2)  What mdee offers is not a product at all.  It is a service.  What if decvax
posted advertisements for dec service contacts on unix-wizards for all the people
who post there with complaints of "mchk: tbuf parity" errors.  Not very good
netiquette at all.

I agree that this is more an oversight in netiquette than a gross violation,
(as my friend at iuvax points out), but as this is the first instance I have
witnessed of this sort I thought it important to point it out to the readers
so this net doesn't allow itself to become net.headhunter.  We are a self-
policing body. (ie anarchy!)  

If the headhunters want to scam resume's from this net, that's ok but advertising
I can't stomach.  

Q:  If someone posts a resume, can a headhunter show it?  (Does public distribution
imply consent to have someone get/offer you a job?)

Reply in this forum.  How 'bout you mdee!root?

dave
-- 
"The Faster I Go the Behinder I Get"
--Lewis Carroll

Dave Carlson

{allegra,seismo,decvax}!rochester!ur-valhalla!dave