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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.general,net.jobs
Subject: Headhunters in net.jobs
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 23:28:17 EST
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Anyone else mildly annoyed/offended at finding the rash of headhunter
ads from AA Personnel via "The Solution" posted to net.jobs?  My feeling
is that job postings on behalf of participating sites are beneficial to
us all: each of us shares in making the net more wide-spread, and there is
as much opportunity to gain valuable personnel, as there is the unlikely 
potential to lose someone to a posted ad.

On the other hand, "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
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