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Second the motion to stop beating this dead horse. ___________________________________________ 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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