I¹ll +1 the suggestion for a separate list for jobs. My personal reasons:
1. I receive the digest version of the code4lib emails (once daily), so I can¹t easily split just jobs into their own folder in my mail program since it¹s all one file. I don¹t really want to start parsing and splitting the file. Thanks, though. 2. I like receiving the digest version of the email which means I¹m reminded to scan through the single email I receive once a day for topics of interest or discusion and I¹m not distracted by email notifications and other things all day when I¹m trying to concentrate through what are already way too many daily interruptions. (Yeah, I know going to its own folder keeps it out of the inbox stream, but there is still the irresistable pull and the mail notifier and other things and I tend to never look at things hidden away in a quarantined folder, ever.) 3. Jobs are generally not topics of interest for me since most are from other places in the country and I¹m not at all interested in moving somewhere else for a job right now even if I were looking, so a good portion of the listings are just extra noise that I don¹t really care about. 4. I find arguments to the effect of "I love looking at jobs² orthoginal to the discussion since we¹re not talking about disallowing job postings, but just moving them to a separate list. Anyone who is interested enough in jobs could also add a separate jobs list to go to their daily email inbox, so I¹m not sure how it would be a loss of all jobs emails they like. I suppose this argument essentially comes down to the same kind of argument as the pro-email-filter one. Basically that argument is, ³just do something different to receive the emails you want the way you want them.² But in this case the argument is coming right back at you from the other direction of suggting a separate email list. 5. Honestly, after all these reasons, I don¹t really care so much and to me it¹s a minor annoyance rather than a pressing problem, but I wanted to put out an alternate viewpoint to the oft repeated ³why don¹t you just use this filtering solution that works for me.² Sorry, that¹s not a solution I love, for whatever idiosyncratic reasons about the way I work. Probably nothing is going to make everyone happy, so, no big deal, whatever happens. I guess that¹s an argument for the status quo since it seems like it¹s one of those things like favorite colors that not everyone is going to agree on and we¹ll never resolve.
