If the individual posting the annoucement is profiting $$$$ directly from the job, meeting and/or seminar anouncement I could understand a lack of tolerance. I've only seen fellow associates in product safety sharing pertinent information. I'll guessimate the message volume on the PSTC was about 5000 messages in 1996 of which less than 100 were job announcements and less than 100 were meeting and/or seminar announcements. I wanted to comment on this because I probably issued 10% of the 200 announcements in 1996 on behalf of Northeast Product Safety Society. NPSS doubled its size twice in 1996 and completed the year with 130 members attending the Nov'96 meeting for a free buffet and the opportunity to see 30 exhibit displays and network with all the major certification suppliers, test equipment suppliers, consulting & lab services suppliers, critical component suppliers, etc. operating in the Northeast. This was a tremendous service to manufacturers and suppliers to promote the exchange of producy safety information and the PSTC was one of the primary communication tools. In 1996 I also collected the job postings and forwarded them to members of NPSS who don't suscribe to PSTC. Three individuals between jobs secured product safety positions as a direct result of e_mail communications that started with the job postings on PSTC. When your between jobs every lead is much more valuable to you and your family than the normal fare of product safety technical information. I support others who believe that my associates in product safety on the PSTC do a reasonably good job of deciding what is appropriate to post to PSTC. I hope the majority concurs if the subject has a clear and concise keyword or two, one can decide not to read any message they don't want, and still respect, or at least tolerate, the right of others to post announcements they feel could be pertinent to a few of their associates in PSTC.
