Re: Job Announcements (was Linux TCP/IP Stack Developer)

["jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net>]

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:25:08 -0700
> Stephen Satchell <list@fluent2.pyramid.net> wrote:
> 
> > At 10:58 AM 10/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > 
> > >By spamming job opennings to our kernel development lists where such
> > >things are not considered allowed, you fucknuts are basically
> > >guarenteeing that no kernel programmer with a brain is going to
> > >respect your company enough to apply for these jobs.
> > >
> > >Please stop posting this crap now.
> > 
> > Are you speaking for yourself, or for Red Hat as well?
> 
> I'm speaking as the vger.kernel.org list maintainer.
> 
> Posting job offerings here has always been and will always be verboten
> here on these lists.  And in particular technical people who join this
> list get a very bad taste in their mouth when someone advertises here
> be it for jobs or products.
> 
> If there is no good place to look for Linux kernel development jobs,
> that isn't my problem.  What is my problem is to enforce the rules
> of these lists at vger.kernel.org.

What you say and what Stephen says are both significant truths. I
wonder if Steve asked the wrong question. Might it be possible to
generate a specific "kernel jobs list" on vger and police it for
extrania as thoroughly as this list gets policed? Given the job
climate of late that might be a nice service to the community.

{^_^}   Joanne