bcn@mit-eddie.UUCP (Clifford Neuman) (01/05/86)
As the site administrator for mit-eddie, I would like to respond to
some of the messages which have appeared concerning the mdee postings.
I do not regularly read net.jobs, and I only read the messages in this
group once the matter was brought to my attention by others.
First for the facts. mit-eddie has a uucp feed with mdee. We do not
feed that site news. It is possible for any site with a uucp feed to
submit a news article to an adjacent system. I have been aware of her
postings for some time, but when it was brought to my attention that
what she had posted was clearly and advertisement, I spoke to her, and
tried to explain proper etiquette.
She acknowledged that she had received several messages telling her
that she should not post messages of that nature, and that the
messages that she sends in the future should be more acceptable for
posting in net.jobs. I would be hard pressed to distingush her
lastest posting from one of the other postings in net.jobs had I not
already known of her organization.
My personal veiw on all this is that postings should be judged on the
basis of their content, and not their poster. Why should a message be
any different if it is sent by a headhunter instead of the company
itself? If the net feels differntly, so be it. I do not wish to
be a censor. I expect that if a clear policy existed for posting to
net.jobs, mdee might follow it. The problem is that a clear policy
does not exist.
~ Cliff
mit-eddie!bcn