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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Commercial use of NET.JOBS
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:46:05 EST
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> =  Ian Kaplan   {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian

>   Perhaps you can explain the defference between a company or a university
>   posting a note on a job opening and a head-hunter doing the same.  In
>   both cases a company paying for news routing may loose a valued employee.
>   On the other hand many companies, including my own, post openings for
>   jobs.

I think the objection here is not about "commercial uses of net.jobs"
so much as the posting of "blind" ads.  The thing that makes the postings
of headhunters annoying -- and distinguishable -- is that they do not
name the companies for whom the jobs are publicized.

If we allow AA Personnel (or whoever) to post such blind ads, we are
giving them a commercial advantage over their competitors, who will
rightly claim that if AA can do it, they should, too!  I think it
is best to not allow such blind ads at all, and thereby avoid the
problem of where to draw the line for commericial uses of Usenet.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam