Re: Job recruitment in comp.databases.*

I had this discussion via e-mail with Rudy Forester, who's company posts to comp.databases as a recruiting tool. At first, I too was annoyed one Monday morning to find one of the few newsgroups not overrun by stupid questions and crossposts about Peecees run over one page of subject lines because of half dozen posts by recruiters. But having tried PC newsreader software even with a local ethernet attached news server, I agree that it would be useless to deal with misc.jobs.* I would propose one of several alternatives: comp.databases.jobs comp.databases.[dbname].jobs comp.databases.jobs.[dbname] OR misc.jobs.databases.[dbname] Is the first alternative acceptable in the comp heirarchy? Is there support in these groups for the first alternative? Is anyone willing to take the lead on the newsgroup creation? In <4i7for$dl5@aphex.direct.ca> emvy@platon.com (Maarten Veerman) writes: >Richard Leyton <richard_leyton@mail.amsinc.com> wrote: >> >>Non-Sybase groups - Your thoughts on this issue? >I can't get too excited about it. The subject is at least somewhat >germane to the newsgroup, and it is always interesting (to me) to >see who is lloking for what, and how much they are willing to pay. >The huge number of postings to *.jobs makes it far too much download >(esp. by modem) and search through. >You can always skip the job postings in the newsgroup, but I think that >people who cross posted (ie Oracle DBAs wanted in the Informix group) >should be dealt with. >Not to mention the "Hot Oriental Lasdies Waiting for Your Call" type >spams, which should be dealt with in the strongest way by everyone. >-- MV >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-MV (Maarten Veerman) Platon Consulting Limited, New Westminster, B.C. >emvy@platon.com AIX-UNIX, Ingres, & Forest Industry Applications >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Sure, I have a lot of opinions, but they are all mine.