Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.jobs Subject: Re: Commercial use of NET.JOBS Message-ID: <1127@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:46:05 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.1127 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:46:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:11:49 EST References: <470@decwrl.UUCP> <784@loral.UUCP> Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 20 > = 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