Thanks for your thoughts folks.
Dan: While I agree substantially with what you have to say we need to
remember that creating a parallel list does not presuppose that list
members are restricted to either one list or the other. People can
subscribe to both and get postings from both and when they subscribe
any list options are listed on the subscriptions page so they can
check which ones they want to subscribe to. The ensure knowledge a
line is already on the footer with a link to the subscriptions page.
Operationally a subscriber who has subscribed to both lists would not
see a lot of difference in their traffic. In other communities where I
have subscribed and that have multiple list structures the atomisation
of subjects does not appear to cause issues. It is also something that
is common in online forums, so for the average punter it is not a
foreign concept. I think you might even find that it increases the
target population with those subscribing to a jobbing list only and
vice versa for the technicals list.
It would take a lot of work for some one/people to police the
frequency at which job postings are made but in that yes, a policy
would be desirable.
Fei Min: The question was raised as to whether this forum would be an
appropriate place for people to begin making postings about their
availability for work (permanent, part-time, or contract), people
looking for work, and organisations looking for people. We are not
talking about what has historically been the case but what could
happen if the proposition were taken up. I then raised the question
that if the volume of job related posts increases substantially,
perhaps a new list specific to that type of posting be created. The
purpose thus to reduce noise on what is otherwise a fairly busy
technical mail list.
Certainly I am one who would make use of a second list. Anyway, its up
to the list owners, eh.
Cheers
Alan
On 17/11/2010, at 3:26 AM, Fei Min Lorente wrote:
For what it's worth, I agree with Dan. We've never had so many job
postings on this list that they're annoying, and I think most people
like to browse them just to see what's out there.
Fei Min
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Harding, Dan
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Job Posting Question.
"I think Alan's suggestion has merit. A separate job posting/
finding group would be a great asset."
I'll post a dissenting opinion, simply because by fragmenting this
list into sublists you potentially wind up with a much smaller
audience seeing the announcement, not to mention unawareness of the
existence of the new list. This list has an established audience.
I think that with some common sense guidelines, job posting/wanted
posts are on-target for the list (feel free to disagree with any or
all of the following; I'm just throwing them out there):
1. The position should be specifically FrameMaker-related; no
generics.
2. The subject line should have a title or prefix that clearly
indicates it is an employment-related announcement ("EMPLOYMENT: "
or something similar).
3. There should be a mandatory waiting period before reposting the
same announcement (1x a month max? biweekly perhaps?)
It shouldn't be a problem as long as there are no abusers of the
policy... naïve perhaps, but hey, I can wish! :)
-Dan
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Alan T Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, Auckland, 1140
New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
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