Hello everyone:
Having just received, for reasons beyond my understanding, the tenth
copy of Alan Thompson's ETH job advert (with a 176K attachment,
meaning over 1.7Mb of unnecessary traffic to me alone, multiplied by
the number of recipients on all the lists who have also received
multiple copies), I make the following suggestions:
1) is it possible to set up a Geo-Jobs mailing list on Mailbase or
somewhere? That way job adverts could be sent to one central
location, anyone who was interested could subscribe to the jobs list
and get just one copy of the advert, and those who weren't hunting
could avoid being inundated with multiple copies of irrelevant
documents;
2) alternatively, can advertisers put the job ads on their Web site,
and email the list(s) with just the URL, so that any interested
parties could visit and get the necessary information;
3) if people have a burning, utterly unquenchable desire to post a
job advert to one or many lists, then either send just a plain text
version (no formatting, no funny fonts, no graphics), or if you are
using Micro$oft Word, PLEASE turn off fast saves or save the document
under some different name. All of this is aimed at making the
document smaller, and quicker and cheaper to download. For example:
Alan's original document - 176,640 bytes
Saved under different name, still Word document - 43,330 bytes
Graphics removed, still Word document - 26,434 bytes
Text-only document - 3,072 bytes
Maybe a central Web site just set up for all geoscience job adverts
is the way to go?
Best wishes,
Chris Mawer
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