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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.jobs,net.news
Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 20:41:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 20:41:18 1985
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Keywords: headhunters, cannibals, witch-doctors, lawyers, etc.
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In article <933@dual.UUCP> freed@dual.UUCP (Erik Freed) writes:
>It seems to me that since so far I don't see any one harmed by the
>present level of headhunter access to net.jobs, maybe the proper way
>to handle this is to wait this out. . . .

I concur. 

Further, I fail to see essential (and meaningful) difference
between net.jobs being flooded with headhunter postings (which
hasn't happened yet), and net.books being flooded with
pornography discussion (which did happen).   From the viewpoint
of the uninterested netnews reader, it's just more articles to
skip.   From the viewpoint of those paying the bills, it's just
kilobytes==dollars.   Presumably, each phenomenon [headhunters,
pornography] is of interest to some group of readers. 

If the flow of headhunter contributions becomes a deluge, the
nature of "net.jobs" will change.   Perhaps subgroups will form.
But I don't see any a priori reason to pressure headhunters in
particular to remove themselves from the net. 

I just ignore those articles anyway -- if no one pays attention,
they'll stop posting.   If they do get responses, doesn't that
mean they have provided a useful service to a netnews reader?
(Although the one I did read was so poorly written as to
dissuade me from ever _looking_ at another one.) 

In any case, I don't think anything should be done until the
volume of headhunter-postings approaches the volume of the
discussions about the headhunter-postings.			;=)

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