fn:Roch Guerin
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Joe,
The risk is that this further decreases the value of being on the TCCC
list for many current members, and not just students, which when
combined with the flood of not necessarily very useful CFPs may end-up
tilting into negative territory the overall value of being a member of
the list. Since being on the list is in practice pretty much how one
becomes a TCCC member, this seems like a pretty effective way to reduce
membership. I'm assuming that's the goal, right? ;-}
Roch
Joe Touch wrote:
> 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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