Re: Job Postings

In article <DDrsA0.2x0_at_ddvictor.dundee.ATTGIS.COM> Barry.Yule_at_Dundee.attgis.COM (B8758105 ) writes:
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>==========Ken Ingram, 22/08/95==========
>>I agree. I feel that this newsgroup is appropriate for the listing of
>>ORACLE jobs. They are clearly marked so that uninterested parties can
>>skip over them and interested parties can find them.
 

>>You may have a point on the format change, but they may still have to be
>>segmented geographicly (at least by region).
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>Maybe even country ?? (for us poor non-U.S. souls)
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The fact that they are clearly marked is irrelevant. What is relevant is they increase the volume of the newsgroup such that messages scroll off before I get to read them. I consider that an offensive cancellation of messages. Whether it's due to some misconfigured intermediate machine or ISP, it still happens.

I've missed messages having read the group after 5pm on a Friday and before 6AM on Monday.

I think the volume also causes messages to be lost. For example, I don't think I ever saw the original of:

>>I agree. I feel that this newsgroup is appropriate for the listing of

If I had, I would have made this response to it. I just checked, it isn't on this machine.

The only response I have seen to my post was Gary Gapinski's agreement 22-Aug-1995. There obviously have been others. I wonder what else I have missed?

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