Second the motion to stop beating this dead horse.

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Michael Friscia
Manager, Digital Library & Programming Services 

Yale University Library
(203) 432-1856


-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carol Bean
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!

No. 

Just no. Vote taken. Preferences noted. Done.

Carol

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:50 AM, Graham Triggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 6 August 2012 13:19, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 150 people responded about whether jobs.code4lib.org posting should
>> come to the discussion list:
>> 
>>    yes: 132
>>    no: 10
>>    who cares: 8
>> 
>> 93% in support or agnostic seems to be a good indicator that the
>> postings should continue to come to the list for now.
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced about that assessment. I quite readily
> agree that the jobs should be posted to *a* mailing list, I'm not so
> sure that it should be this mailing list.
> 
> It's been discussed about filtering the jobs sent to the list, but I
> already filter the code4lib mailing list into a tag. It's been a bit
> of a faff, but I've subdivided the filtering so that I can get the
> messages sent from jobs@... to go to a different tag. But then Ed
> replied to one, so now it appears in both tags, and because I'm using
> Gmail, it takes the whole thread with it.
> 
> So filtering really isn't a solution.
> 
> Rather than just asking whether jobs should come to this mailing list,
> maybe we can ask whether a separate mailing list should be set up,
> specifically for jobs. The two mailing lists could be cross promoted
> (e.g. a standard footer), and people can choose whether they want or
> don't want to receive them. And we can still have
> discussions/follow-ups about those jobs on that mailing list.
> 
> Even though the vast majority of the postings aren't applicable to me,
> I would probably still sign up to a separate jobs mailing list as it
> is of interest - but I would at least then be able to keep that
> separate from the main discussions, which is something I can't
> effectively do right now.
> 
> G