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[Joel Bernstein]

On 31 Mar 2009, at 18:09, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:

> Simon Wilcox <essuu at ourshack.com> writes:
>
>> On 31/3/09 14:18, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>
>>> The job-related topics are most conspicuous, and the threads always
>>> generated more heat than light. Perhaps there really should be on  
>>> another
>>> mailing list dedicated to job postings - with discussion forbidden  
>>> on that
>>> list to stop flamefests.
> [...]
>> Banning discussion of job postings on THIS list would be a good idea
>> though since someone's bound to post one eventually even if there  
>> is a
>> separate list and then the vocal minority will get upset all over  
>> again.
>
> London.pm has separate jobs and jobs-discuss lists, the former being
> moderated and with Reply-To: jobs-discuss. This arrangement works very
> well in my experience.

Crucially, jobs@ is archived whereas jobs-discuss@ is not. At least  
not publically in l.pm pipermail anyway...

/joel
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