<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On 18 Jan 2012, at 13:35, Jon Leighton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'd be in favour of a blanket ban on postings from recruitment agents. (As opposed to people posting an ad for the company they actually work for, which I don't mind.)<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>Blanket banning seems a bit to extreme to me; that people are finding jobs via the list demonstrates that there is some value in the emails for some people.<div><br></div><div><div>Murray and I already try to encourage relevant, specific and detailed posts whenever we are consulted before someone posts a job advert, but perhaps it's time to make those guidelines easier to find.</div><div><br></div><div><div></div></div></div><div>I think adding something to the subject is a reasonable compromise to allow effective filtering without totally eliminating the possibility of hearing about opportunities for those who are interested at any given time.</div><div><br></div><div>So:</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>* if you're posting a job advert, use [JOBS] in the subject and follow the guidelines I've thrown up here: <a href="http://lrug.org/posting-jobs">http://lrug.org/posting-jobs</a></div><div>* if you are the recipient of an email from the LRUG list that you feel isn't respecting those guidelines, report it us at <a href="mailto:chat-owner@lists.lrug.org">chat-owner@lists.lrug.org</a> and we'll follow up appropriately.</div><div>* If you have any improvements for those guidelines, get in touch with chat-owner as above.</div><div><br></div><div>Bonus tip: if you're responding to a job advert double check to make sure you're not inadvertently emailing your CV to the list, which is embarrassing and effectively impossible to undo :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>- James</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>