Headhunters

Jack Parker writes: "[ " "[ " "[ "Fellow netters, "[ " "[ "Is it just me or have the headhunters discovered us here? I don't know . . . text omitted . . . "[ "How about a ruling or a vote? (mine is Neigh). "[ " "[ "cheers "[ "j. "[ " "[ "_____________________________________________________________________________ "[ "Jack Parker - Contractor | "[ " This net serves me and other netters best when it is a place to exchange information about a fairly limited set of technical subjects. The prompting of the exchange might be a question raised by someone on the net or the simple desire of someone to share information of technical importance to us. By the nature of the products we use and the way we communicate, our subjects might appropriately stray beyond the purely technical. We are a reasonable group of people for Informix to listen to and discover what specific problems we are having with their products. More generally, they can discover some gaps in their distribution and support services by reading our tales of woe. (I have gotten a little weary of the implications found in some of the tales that Informix marketeers or technical supporters, are incompetent by the very fact that they work for the vendor. Although even as I say that, I must admit that those implications seen less frequent on the network. Maybe we don't call them as much because we exchange information pretty well among ourselves; maybe they have gotten better. ) So, in our need to collect information about which we have strong interests, we are an electronic pressure group. We are also a reasonable target for head_hunters, etc. By the means of communication we use we are identifiable to headhunters. We can't do much about that, but their active netting can be objectionable in two ways. As has been suggested, job postings consume our resource, although I don't feel inundated by them yet. In another way they can be inhibiting. We all suffer if some organizations are reluctant to encourage their employees' participation for fear that they become head-hunters' targets or that postings are distracting. For that reason, I think that head-hunters contacting should be by some other means. They do get paid for doing something. Giving them the leads ought to be good enough. It should be fairly simple to make contact with any of us. I second or third Jack and Alan's objections. By the way, frogive my abuse of the resource a bit more with another subject. I think we should think twice about responding to the general questionnaire postings that set us up as some sort of experts on everybody's database software. I would imagine few of us have more than a passing acquaintance with any other products. We would seem to be a poor group to provide indepth side by side comparisons of all the features of five or six product lines. I guess there is nothing terrible about it. Nobody is twisting arms to require an answer to the questionnaires. However, I would be upset if I found out that those responses were being used as somebody's marketing survey. -- ********************************************************* Con Woodall * Due to technical difficulties Colorado State University * and local network rearranging Veterinary Teaching Hospital * the email address noted might Fort Collins, CO 80523 * or might not work. If the 303-491-1244, FAX 303-491-4414 * one at the left doesn't work cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu * try dropping out either the * * 'vth1' or the 'vth' and * * resending, which might or * * might not work. *********************************************************