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Fri Mar 29 14:47:20 PST 2002

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:20:01PM -0800, joe bsd wrote:
> Have you guys ever considered creating a few
> lists for tech discussions?:
> Linux
> Windows
> Solaris
> Mixed Platform

There are a few hundred mailing lists for all of these technologies,
there is about ZERO reason why you'd need to duplicate this stuff,
unless, say, BayLISA has SIGs with their own mailing lists devoted to
specific black arts.  (I have never made a meeting, sorry. :)

The advantage to technical discussion among BayLISA members is that you
know these people, to some degree, and they are local professionals.
You can expect a certain level of quality on this list.

> About the offer for the "unmentionable employment issues" email list,
> I think it might do more harm then good.  Employers might want to
> steer clear of Bay Lisa members if they saw a list like that on the
> baylisa site.

One thing that SAs tend to notice, either from their vast experience
with networked culture, or from experience maintaining e-mail and news
services, is that employment solicitation easily leads to lots of
traffic, and potential abuse.  Nobody on this list should be surprised
that employment issues may be inappropriate to this forum.

As for your earlier complaints about employers abusing H1B Visas, I
humbly suggest that if you can document specific abuses, and then
determine how the law could be reformed to curtail these abuses, that
you may find members on this list willing to respond to your
well-reasoned, clearly-stated call-to-action with a signature on a
petition, a message to a conressional representative, or the like.
Heck, you may even be able to find like-minded folks who can lend a hand
with all the research and grunt-work that goes in to making our
Democracy a better place.

Blind rants, as we've all observed, tend to just annoy people.  And this
crowd, more than most, tends to grok their filtering software.  I'd
tread lightly lest people start discarding your messages before they
ever even see them.

-danny

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