mob@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Mario O. Bourgoin) (05/06/87)
Bcc: Dear Marilyn, Why do you persist in posting commercial advertising to a technical newsgroup? You have been asked by other users of the network to restrict such articles to the misc.jobs newsgroup which is appropriate for such requests. I don't object to you using misc.jobs but I do object to you abusing comp.ai. Even if it were ok to use USENET for commercial purposes, you do not have a reason to post out of misc.jobs. Being a regular reader of misc.jobs I can tell you that you are not swamped out in that newsgroup. Every person on my machine who reads USENET articles subscribes to misc.jobs and I think it reasonable to assume that it is the same at other sites. I will complain to the MIT people in charge of your USENET connection. Maybe I will get results this way. --Mario O. Bourgoin
cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Christopher Young) (05/10/87)
Mario O. Bourgoin complains of Marilyn Dee posting job announcements. Now perhaps he is right; perhaps this is the wrong newsgroup for such postings. But it doesn't seem like such a big deal to me either. There is always the 'n' key, or her name could be put in the kill file. Perhaps it is a matter of principle for him. I wonder if her posts bother anybody as much as it does Mr. Bourgoin. -- -- Chris. (cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu)
roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley) (05/14/87)
In article <1185@isl1.ri.cmu.edu> cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Christopher Young) writes: >Perhaps it is a matter of principle for him. I wonder if her posts bother >anybody as much as it does Mr. Bourgoin. yes, it bothers me as much, but chiefly because the disclaimer at the end invalidates all her messages on this side of the border. I doubt that there are that many expatriate AI specialist Americans here in Canada longing for such opportunities to return home. More importantly, I have little faith in an organization that can be so incompetent. Sure, I appreciate the logic that says "the way to be sure your readers are true AIers is hit an AI newsgroup", but several of my non-AI colleagues subscribe to this group out of simple intellectual curiosity. Please, Ms. Dee, confine your solicitations to the jobs forum, or curtail the distribution to a geographic region in which there is a reasonable statistical likelihood of finding applicants who won't be victims of your disclaimer. Robert Stanley << I never flame ;-) >> -- Robert Stanley decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!roberts Voice: (613) 738-1440 (on EST) Tuesdays only don't ask-----' Cognos Inc., 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3N3 CANADA
mb@camcon.co.uk (Mike Bell) (05/18/87)
> Mario O. Bourgoin complains of Marilyn Dee posting job announcements. [...] > But it doesn't seem like such a big deal to me either. There is always the ^^^^^^ You and who else? > 'n' key, or her name could be put in the kill file. But why should news readers all over the world, who have to *pay* for telecomms charges to receive news, have to subsidise Marilyn Dee's advertising costs? Especially when Marily Dee isn't interested in non-US nationals... OK, so it's only one agency at the moment, but if everybody starts making use of this "free" service... > Perhaps it is a matter of principle for him. I wonder if her posts bother > anybody as much as it does Mr. Bourgoin. Yes it does. -- --------------- UUCP: ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!camcon!mb -- Mike Bell -- Email: mb%camcon.co.uk --------------- Phone: +44 223 358855d