[ale] Employment Anyone?

[John Wells]

Yup.  And I didn't mean I have a problem with the OT stuff.  Some of it is
interesting information, and the longer threads can be pretty funny.  Just
pointing out that employment traffic consumes a trivial amount of
bandwidth/inbox space when compared with political discussions or the now
infamous H1B thread ;-).

The fact that we have quite a bit of OT stuff and that Ale is still by far
the most useful, friendly list I've ever lurked on speaks volumes about
the folks subscribed.

I say post away...

John


Robert L. Harris said:
>> Agreed.  A weekly digest might have the desired effect, but I honestly
>> have no problem with folks sending it directly to the list.  It's not
>> like there has been an overwhelming amount of
>> self-promotion/unemployment announcements.
>>
>> Rather than ale-unemployed, I think we need to have
>> ale-for-people-bitching-about-lots-of-stuff-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-linux.
>>    That, IMHO, would be much more effective at reducing list noise.
>>
>
> We have discussions that start on topic and go off topic.  Unless it's
> really hot it dies down pretty quick, otherwise it may be off topic but
> still of interest to some of us.
>
> We have stuff that starts WAY off topic and goes farther.  Usually this
> becomes a flame war where MOST of the traffic is people bitching about
> how off topic it is with 1 or 2 emails mixed in to keep the flame going.
>
> Then we have the occasional Job or Resume posting.  As far as I'm
> concerned, this is our ALE Linux friends related.  If an ALE'er is out
> of work but can program in C++ and a Windows C++ Job posting goes
> through then Forward that baby on to the list.  Why you ask?
>   First of all it may help one of our FRIENDS WHO USE OR WANT TO USE
>     LINUX even if it's a 100% Windows job.
>   Second if it's got absolutely NOTHING to do with Linux maybe the
>     person who gets the job can bring Linux into it and we'll get a
> report in 6 months that XYZ company is now looking at replacing MS
> IIS servers with Linux and Apache because that C++ programmer
> convinced them to give it a try.
>
>   Look at these as a chance to get some Pro-Linux advocacy (sp?) people
> into non-linux places...  More importantly, consider it possible help to
> an ALE'er in a tight spot.
>
> Robert
>
>
> :wq!
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