I am one of the most connected linkedin members - I'm in the top 25 with 12k+ connections, most to people involved with Sun and Sun technology. I have many recruiters connected to me. I get a fairly small number of requests from recruiters asking that I forward a request from them. Most are quite clear and appropriate, so I would not worry about letting them "in".
-johnj On Dec 12, 2007 2:32 PM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > >> A linkedin is all about building and maintaining relationships and > >> linkedin groups are to indicate an interest in a topic or membership in > >> an organization. We could use the same model that the CISSP's use which > >> is if your a member, then yes, if your not no... , but here's how you > >> join.... > >> > >> Increases the awareness of OpenSolaris.org as a resource and a > >> community, and could draw into it additional Opensolaris-jobs traffic... > >> > >> my $.02, > > > > Let me add a nickle to that. > > > > Should we let in the tele-marketers too ? I think they are the same ilk as > > the head hunters. > > Sure, but playing devil's advocate here, do we not allow head hunters? Oh, > and let's not forget telemarketers, and folks with email servers in > specific countries, and fat people, oh, and skinny people...were do we > end? > > I am half tongue in cheek here, but if you have a free and open society, > shouldn't it be open to all? I am with everyone as far as not wanting > anymore spam, but this won't stop anyone from harvesting our email > addresses one of many ways if they want to. > > And let's say that someone did get a job where the headhunter netted 20% > of the contract for sitting on their @$$, that happens all the time in our > industry, but would that be bad? Would it be bad that headhunters find > interest in OpenSolaris and/or are scouting for engineers to fill those > slots? It's all food for thought, again, I'm really playing devil's > advocate but haven't heard anything reasonable yet on why we shouldn't > allow some of these folks to join the group that Jim created. > > "Open" is a double edge sword, IMO. > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group > _______________________________________________ > > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- John J. McLaughlin Editor-in-Chief/CTO System News, Inc. +1 (954) 295 8784 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
