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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: AI recruitment and etc.
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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 00:38:21 EST
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The primary critereon for making this decision (which seems to be
"should headhunters be allowed to post job openings to the net?")
should be whether such postings are primarily of benefit to the
net, or to the poster.  If the net derives significant benefit
from the posting, then the fact that it's commercial use by the
headhunter shouldn't matter.

From where I sit, I suspect that the answer is that a single
posting such as we just saw doesn't hurt anything, and there
were several people who seemed interested (at least generically.)
On the other hand, if every headhunter in the world started posting
all their openings, I suspect we'd have a problem.  Certainly there's
a problem if the volume or visibility becomes significant.  (In addition
to the cost in phone bills, CPU time, disk space, and person time to
send around all the postings, commercial companies would be concerned
about such postings being run under the noses of their employees.)

I propose that we adopt the following policy:

Postings for job openings, items for sale, and the like, by third
parties will be allowed, as long as the total volume does not exceed
some threshold.  (One article per day, netwide, might be one possibility
for the threshold.)  When the average volume over a one-month period
exceeds this threshold, the privilege is cancelled, and no more third
party postings at all will be permitted.

	Mark Horton