On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> More people likely see these notices here than would on Velocity's Web site, > so this seems a better place for them. A better solution seems to be for > people working at companies which think they can censor information their > employees see to read the list on home computers. The same holds for showing your nipples during Superbowl. Many people will see it, but that was not why they were watching the game. Even though I may find it silly, there are people who would not want to watch the game when they could be confronted with the bonus (and I would not even want to watch the game even when I knew the bonus would be there, but that's something else..) In a former life when mailing lists were getting more popular, I suggested my manager to give guidance on what we do with it. His response was "my staff should not waste time looking into problems of other companies: not allowed." And we did anyway, just never told him our problem was fixed next day because of that type of exchange. Which means he was never told that policy was wrong and counter productive... So the rule remained in place. But I think it's unfair to force a peer to unsubscribe from the list because we think his employer should see things otherwise. Most likely that peer needs the technical contacts on the list more than others because they may live a sheltered live and not go to conferences (or even have a phone with published number ;-). Back then, Tony used to post a monthly reminder notice with a link to the jobs posted on the Velocity Software pages. I suspect the amount of vacancies was too low to justify doing that. How about sending such a reminder when a new job is posted? I think it could even include function/location in the subject without going over the edge. Rob
