Re: US-MD MAINFRAME PROGRAMMERS NEEDED

As a member of the board of iiug I heartily endorse mike's comments. As an overseas contributor to c.D.i I feel that it is grossly wrong that we should have to pay to receive messages about jobs which are restricted to US personnel. May I ask all people who want to post job opportunities to consider that about 50% of informix sites are outside the usa and that they are therefore wasting the time of half of the people who read these messages. I have been trying to encourage more UK sites to use c.d.i and will continue to do so, but these wrong postings makes my life very difficult. > Mikey wrote: > > > > The Maxim Group, one of the nations leading and fastest growing > > Information Systems consulting groups currently has several openings > > for > > individuals with Mainframe Programming experience. Skills should > > include: > > COBOL > > [SNIP]! > > E N O U G H ! > > Ok, sorry to post this but I am for one getting sick and tired of > these recruiters posting non Informix bs to c.d.i > > As well as the ocassional get rich quick scheme. > > In the last 24 hours, at least on this server, there were several > postings for positions which first had nothing to do with Informix, > and second, they were spammed to several newsgroups. > > Now I know that there has been some discussion about > limiting the postings on job offers. > > As a consultant, I am always interested in finding out about > possible jobs, however, I can read misc.jobs.offered or > misc.contracts.offered too! I don't need to read it here. > > What I am asking for, it an c.d.i faq limiting the postings to > Informix product and technical information. (Of course since there > are those who are too lazy to read m.j.o or m.c.o, I'm sure we can > admend this to include positions for informix contracts only. > > The reason that we need the FAQ, is so that when we, (Billy and myself, > along with some others.), complain to ISPs about their incorrect > postings and spams, we have grounds to complain. Ignorance of > the law is no excuse! > > Since there is the IIUG, I recommend that they put something together, > or at least ratify it. (After all, they are our peers, which were > nominated and elected at the last conference.) > > -Mikey > > BTW, please DO NOT e-mail me for the next 24 hours! I lost my root > volume group on my main server and since I am just a lowly consultant, > I can't afford 4 hour support and have to live with 24 hour support. > You're mail will be forwarded to my backup mail server, but I won't > have time to read it until I get back on line. Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 01628-72154 Fax 01628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc