Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl!piggott From: piggott@bnl.UUCP (Christopher Piggott @ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, N.Y.) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs Message-ID: <874@bnl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 14:59:02 EST Article-I.D.: bnl.874 Posted: Sun Feb 10 14:59:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:44:58 EST References: <290@bbnccv.UUCP> Distribution: net Lines: 38 > ... "The Solution" is, if I interpret their ads correctly, > a commercial timesharing system selling UNIX and news cycles to paying > clients. Having a headhunter posting their ads to the net seems a blatantly > commercial use of the net, and one without any corresponding benefit that > I can see: the headhunter gets his fee, the Solution gets its fee, and my > company pays to pass the ad on to other sites. If there is any reason to > feel otherwise about this, I wish someone would convince me. > -- > /Steve Dyer > {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer > sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA Sorry I didn't post your whole article, Steve, but I was more curious about what (and why) "The Solution" is than the headhunters stuff... This has had me curious for a while. I thought commercial use of the net was not allowed!!! The only rationalization I could come up with would be that if you pay to be on "The Solution" and read the news, you are really paying for the access time to HIS computer; what you choose to do with your online time there (ie read the news) is your own business. I would greatly appreciate comments etc. through news or mail - perhaps even some comments to netnews from the admin. of "The Solution" ? -- Christopher Piggott UUCP: ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!piggott ARPA: piggott@BNL AT&T: (516)-475-3845 -- -- Christopher E. Piggott ARPA: piggott@BNL UUCP: ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!piggott