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Hi, Nitin,
Nitin H. Vaidya wrote:
> Dear Joe:
>
>>> The TCCC mailing list is also open to other postings of potential
>>> interest to its members, which include job offers, and RFIs or RFPs in
>>> areas of technical interest to TCCC members.
>> Note that this will be corrected very shortly; commercial posts are prohibited
>> by IEEE ComSoc email policy.
>
> Those of us looking for jobs in the area of networking --
> particularly recent Ph.D. students -- probably appreciate
> seeing a few "seeking people" advertisements in
> the flood of "desperately seeking papers" notices.
>
> Possible solutions would be to tolerate such job
> advertisements on the TCCC list -- afterall these don't
> seem to be frequent enough to be particularly painful
> yet -- or to promote a separate list for jobs (or
> jobs-for-Ph.D.s) postings, similar to jobs@cra.
>
> As I see it, ComSoc's role should be to help its
> membership -- if, in the process, it happens to aid
> commercial interests, that is not necessarily
> a bad thing. In any event, ComSoc doesn't
> seem to put any resources behind this list
> as such, other than the voluntary efforts of
> the community, so perhaps ComSoc policies
> could be viewed as "good practices" as opposed
> to the law of the land.
The ComSoc has a specific set of policies developed for its email lists, of
which TCCC is one. We are currently running on a non-ComSoc server, which makes
things easier for us, but that's not particularly relevant to the policy.
We could raise this issue with the ComSoc, but I suspect they would conclude
that commercial job postings are outside the scope of a TC to support, and that
they already provide venues (as a revenue source) for such posts (e.g.,
advertisements in IEEE Communications and IEEE Network, and sale of their email
lists).
Joe
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