Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ubc-cs!van-bc!seac!wain
From: wain@seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson)
Newsgroups: can.jobs
Subject: Re: This area
Keywords: commercial
Message-ID: <5591@seac.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 22:46:43 GMT
References: <1960@oneb.UUCP>
Distribution: can
Organization: SEAC Software Engineering, Vancouver, B.C.
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In article <1960@oneb.UUCP> kmcvay@oneb.UUCP (Ken McVay) writes:
>I noted the creation of this area with interest, and immediately
>wondered what sort of guidelines exist with regard to its use.
>
>One of my clients is a personnel agency, and he would like to be
>able to post job openings in appropriate newsgroups. Because he operates
>a commercial employment service, I have suggested that he refrain from
>posting here until I can clarify the rules.
>
Tell your cient to start his own net.  Glad you saw fit to suggest that 
the agency restrain itself. Public funds and the good will of alot of people
keep the net functional. The net is not intended as a vehicle for
commercial organizations either to gain competitive advantage or 
to reduce operating costs. Even the mere suggestion of job postings
posted by a commercial personnel agency running around "appropriate groups" 
is enough to .... 

The philosophy of the net is pretty apparent in the monthly postings
in the 'news' groups. Or, to look at things in a slightly different
manner: Why should I provide the dollars for machinery and the time
to keep a node functioning while the personnel agency benefits
from my dollars and my time. Or, from another perspective, is the
personnel agency willing to pay me a fee for distributing and
carrying the adds? What about the thousands of other machines that
would be distributing and carrying the adds?

-- 
Wain Dobson, Vancouver, B.C.
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