question on recruiters and list/group policy

[mstretchberry at mindspring.com]

Walter - thanks for your efforts - and this may class me as "really stupid"
recruiter - but what do you mean by "recruiters are not scalar quantities"?
:-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Pienciak <walter at frii.com>
To: boulder-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
<boulder-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: question on recruiters and list/group policy


>Hi,
>
>I've been "away" at the USITS conference (wow, great papers and
>conversations), but I guess everyone who cares has kicked in their
>opinion by now and I can just boil down the comments into a policy.
>
>Here goes:
>
>boulder-pm-list is for Perl-related discussion.  General announcements
>likely to be of interest to most group members are welcome.  Occasional
>job postings closely related to Perl are acceptable.
>
>If abuses begin to occur (and we reserve the right to redefine "abuse"
>as consensus dictates), we'll take the necessary steps to stop it.
>(Of course, only *really stupid* recruiters would deliberately
>provoke/alienate the people they're trying to recruit . . . but you
>never know.  There's a lot of strange thinking out there.)
>
>Recruiters are not scalar quantities, and we won't classify them as
>such.  If you have a legitimate interest in Perl, you're welcome on
>the mailing list and at any of our meetings, regardless of your "day
>job".
>
>Any person who meets the above criteria and wants to pick up the
>tab at a meeting is welcome to do so.
>
>Walter
>
>