I am happy to announce a significant breakthrough!!! Commercial job
postings have been approved on this newsgroup (EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs)
as long as they follow the guidelines listed below. My thanks to
Henry Schaffer for formulating a compromise and to Steve Wolff at NSF
for approving it! Excerpts from his response to my letter are
provided below.
Sincerely,
Dave Kristofferson
BIOSCI/bionet Manager
kristoff at net.bio.net
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To: Dave Kristofferson <kristoff>
Subject: Need to talk to Steve Wolff ASAP
Cc: gilbertd at silver.ucs.indiana.edu, ernest at lenti.med.umn.edu
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 12:31:10 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve at cise.cise.nsf.gov>
Dave - It has indeed been an unconscionably long time, and I apologize.
-> I discussed this with Henry Schaffer, who I believe you know,
->at a recent meeting in DC and he suggested a possible compromise. I
->would like to have permission to allow the posting of a job title and
->a one or two line description of the position plus a contact e-mail
->address. This will keep the size of the commercial postings to a
->minimum. Only postings for professionals in the area served by
->BIOSCI/bionet would be allowed. I sincerely hope that you can give me
->the O.K. on this. I think that U.S. science will be much better
->served if trained people can find jobs. The network is one of the
->best ways to bring people and job opportunities together, and the old
->regulations are severely hampering this effort.
(...)
Henry was always a voice of reason. His suggestion is just exactly
right and NSF is happy to authorize the use as described, providing in
addition that the postings be limited to discipline-specific lists
(e.g., bionet.jobs) on which subscribers may have a reasonable
expectation of receiving such postings.
The bases of this authorization are paragraphs (1), (3), (4), and (6) of the
THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (June 1992).
-s
