sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (02/05/85)
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 {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA