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This sort of suggestion is made quite regularly on other electronic mailing lists that I belong to. Deleting unwanted subject matter from an easily recognizable source like allstat is too swift and simple to be "oppressive". The huge advantage of electronic mailing lists like allstat, stat-l and anzstat, which do not separate out job adverts, is that the ads reach a far wider audience than those who are actively seeking jobs. The people in that audience not only pass on information, but may also be alerted to a position that they had not previously considered for themselves. Cheers Ross > From [log in to unmask] Wed Jun 30 00:27 NZS 1999 > X-Sender: [log in to unmask] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Subject: A separate list for job advertisement in statistics? > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: Norman Marsh <[log in to unmask]> > X-List: [log in to unmask] > X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave allstat' to [log in to unmask] > X-List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Length: 1100 > > This is in a sense a message for the ALLSTAT list owner, but > on balance I *think* that I should also share it with the > list membership. > > In subscribing to ALLSTAT a couple of months ago, I find > that I have joined a community which exercises my interests > in Statistics (and some who are interested in keyboard > instruments!) but that I am oppressed considerably by the > great volume of Job Advertisements which are distributed here. > > I am one, and I suppose there may be others, who has no > intention of seeking a new job, nor of advising others who > may be job seekers. On the other hand, I can see that there > are likely to be many persons for whom immediate notification > of selected job advertisements in statistics etc. must be > highly valuable. > > So, I suggest, could ALLSTAT be even better if organised > as two separate lists - one for the Job Advertisments and > one for the other/general/substantive discussions? Those > who wanted only one service could subscribe to only that one, > those wanting both could subscribe to both. What do others > think? > > Norman Marsh > [log in to unmask] > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%