<p>I spoke to several recruiters (one today at lunch over good salmon) who said they are not comfortable sending to a mailing list when not specifically allowed... </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 16, 2011 4:17 PM, "Jathan McCollum" <<a href="mailto:jathan@gmail.com">jathan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I really don't see what's wrong with job postings being approved by our<br>
> benevolent moderator (Grig). It's worked for the most part so far.<br>> <br>> To channel my inner project manager: What problem are we trying to solve?<br>> <br>> Clearly it's to avoid the list being clogged with job postings, I get that.<br>
> I'm not convinced, however, we're at the point where we need to shake things<br>> up and branch the list to socal-piggies-nojobs and socal-piggies-jobsplz.<br>> <br>> I have to admit, the fact that we've seen a notable increase (however small)<br>
> in Python-related job postings is actually a good thing for our community,<br>> email preferences aside.<br>> <br>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Greenfeld <<a href="mailto:pydanny@gmail.com">pydanny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Mel,<br>>><br>>> Doug is awesome. But he isn't the only recruiter. How do we go about<br>>> only allowing decent guys like Doug in but not allowing others? Should<br>>> we allow people/groups that sponsor Socal Piggies and Python in<br>
>> general the ability to post job listings?<br>>><br>>> I'm not being snarky here, I'm being very serious.<br>>><br>>> Danny<br>>><br>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mel Raab <<a href="mailto:automagc@ix.netcom.com">automagc@ix.netcom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Regarding Doug's job posting: you've eaten his pizza, you've used his<br>>> > conference room, he's always polite and his contributions are<br>>> constructive,<br>>> > are you ever soured by his infrequent posts? So what's the problem?<br>
>> ><br>>> > Regarding other job postings: you're part of a special interest group to<br>>> > keep up on what's going on. There haven't been that many job postings<br>>> here,<br>
>> > and each gives both an insight and an opportunity. Even if you're not<br>>> > looking for a job, don't you want to know what's going on? Don't you<br>>> want<br>>> > to help someone else out who might be looking for a job? Sure, if the<br>
>> > volume increases, maybe the flow has to be redirected away from here and<br>>> be<br>>> > better organized. Are we really at that point now?<br>>> ><br>>> > Regarding the volume and frequency of continued discussion on this<br>
>> matter:<br>>> > Is there any chance we can get the meandering on job postings off this<br>>> > interest list? I think there are many venues for this type of discussion<br>>> > when we have such ambivalent feelings and this should not be one of them.<br>
>> > ;)<br>>> ><br>>> > Mel Raab<br>>> ><br>>> > _______________________________________________<br>>> > socal-piggies mailing list<br>>> > <a href="mailto:socal-piggies@lists.idyll.org">socal-piggies@lists.idyll.org</a><br>
>> > <a href="http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/socal-piggies">http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/socal-piggies</a><br>>> ><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> --<br>>> 'Knowledge is Power'<br>
>> Daniel Greenfeld<br>>> <a href="http://pydanny.com">http://pydanny.com</a><br>>> <a href="http://cartwheelweb.com">http://cartwheelweb.com</a><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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>><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Jathan.<br>> --<br></div>