After I hit 'send' I started looking through the list rules just to
make sure it was O.K. since I hadn't sent an email here in a very long
time. Should have done that first.
My public apology now.
BUT, I still have work for someone :)
Quoting Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:32:38PM -0500, Mark Bishop wrote:
>
>> My Company is in need of one to two software (and I mean C)
>> programmers.
>
> Mark wrote me privately to apologize about this breach of list rules.
> But we had another incident last week of someone attempting to sell
> something on the list (I contacted that person privately about the
> matter).
>
> So I thought perhaps I should reiterate: Please don't put employment and
> for sale items on the list. We have pages on the SLUG website for these
> things:
>
> http://suncoastlug.org/forsale.php
> http://suncoastlug.org/jobs.php
>
> There are two main reasons for these rules. First, on most technical
> lists like this, job/sales traffic is frowned upon. People complain
> because it chews bandwidth and decreases the signal-to-noise ratio of
> the list. They're busy and they look to the list for technical answers
> and such, and don't want to wade through this kind of off-topic
> traffic. Second, in particular jobs traffic can result in threads about
> the relative merits of this or that company advertising its jobs. Job
> posts shouldn't be matters for debate, but there's nothing to prevent it
> on an unmoderated list. Same with sales items, though it happens less
> often with them.
>
> There are lists which allow this type of traffic, and their members have
> agreed such traffic is worthwhile to have on their lists. This list
> wasn't set up that way, and when it's been allowed in the past, I've
> gotten complaints.
>
> So please revisit the list rules if you're unfamiliar with or have
> forgotten them. They're mailed out at the top of each month, and are
> also on the SLUG website.
>
> Paul
>
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> President
> Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG)
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