Subject: Welcome to austin.jobs [monthly FAQ posting]
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Expires: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 06:54:59 GMT
Summary: periodic posting of newsgroup guidelines and charter
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:54:59 GMT
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Version: 1.8

@(#) austx-jobs 1.8 95/08/21 18:43:10

Welcome to austin.jobs.  This newsgroup is for messages regarding
employment in Austin.  This includes postings of jobs offered and wanted,
as well as general discussions about work.

This message describes the charter and guidelines for austin.jobs.
These guidelines were developed as a consensus among the Austin Usenet
community.  Please honor the desires of that community:  read this
message carefully *before* posting your article to austin.jobs.

The most up-to-date version of these guidelines may be obtained by
any of the following methods:

.- The World Wide Web -- http://www.unicom.com/FAQ/

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To job posters:  The Austin Usenet community has adopted a number of
guidelines to help keep austin.jobs a useful resource.  These guidelines
were adopted by consensus when this newsgroup was created.  If you
wish to post a job opening to this newsgroup, please ensure your
message meets the guidelines listed below.  Remember -- unlike a
newspaper ad, you aren't the person who foots the bill.  The Usenet
readers do.  Please be courteous and use this newsgroup appropriately.
The goal of these guidelines is to keep austin.jobs an attractive
place for job hunting.  Violations of these guidelines lessen the
usefulness of this newsgroup.  If folks start tuning out -- you lose
by getting a diminishing audience for your message.

Here are the austin.jobs guidelines:

- This newsgroup is appropriate for:

    - posting about job openings in the greater Austin area.
    - messages looking for work in the greater Austin area.
    - articles about job hunting and working in the greater Austin area.

- As indicated above, only messages about jobs in Austin are appropriate
  for this group.  If you want to post about a job somewhere else, it
  does NOT belong here.  Jobs in other areas should be posted to one
  of the national jobs groups (misc.jobs.*) or to an appropriate
  regional newsgroup (such as tx.jobs, houston.jobs, or dfw.jobs).

- We recommend that job seekers do NOT post their resume here.  That's
  a highly inefficient use of net.bandwidth.  Instead, consider posting
  a short article summarizing your interests and experience.  You can
  provide a full resume at the time interested people contact you.
  Besides, you'd rather send out four-color Postscript resumes anyway;
  80-column US-ASCII resumes are ugly. :-)

- We define a job as a postion for which a person will be compensated
  in return for work or services, and that compensation will be subject
  to Federal tax witholding (form W-2) or reporting (form 1099).
  Postings for commission-only salespeople, independant distributors,
  work-at-home envelope stuffing, and the like are specifically forbidden.

- Messages about full-time, part-time, and contract job positions are
  all appropriate for this group.

- Financial opportunity postings, including solicitations for multi-level
  marketing organizations, are NOT appropriate for this newsgroup.

- Commercial soliciations are NOT appropriate for this group.  This
  includes advertisements of services for job-seekers, announcement
  of "free" items to promote your service, and solicitations for consulting
  customers.

- Postings for unfilled positions should not be repeated more than once
  every two weeks.

- If you post here, please be prepared to accept responses, resumes,
  questions, etc. via email.  You will find your use of this newsgroup
  a lot more effective if the initial contact and screening can be
  handled by email.

- If you are NOT the person who handles the email contact, put a
  Reply-To: header in your posting that points email responses to the
  right address.  Do not simply say ``send email to...'' in the body
  of your message and expect responses to go there.  Most folks just
  hit the "R" key to issue a response.  If you do not use a Reply-To,
  that response will go to you.

- General good ideas for any Usenet posting:  Avoid strange line
  breaks and long lines that wrap around a typical terminal screen.
  We suggest you break your lines at 72 columns or less.  Whitespace
  is your friend (within reason).  Carefully spell check and proofread
  your submissions; nothing screams ``unprofessional'' louder than
  poorly crafted prose.  Please go easy on the Cap-Shift key.  Do NOT
  right-justify your text; leave ``ragged right margins.''  We are not
  impressed that you can construct your company logo out of Xs and
  /s.  ``ASCII art'' and gratuitous typesetting effects are discouraged.
  A double pox on people who use overly long signatures.

One frequent (and unfortunate) abuse of this newsgroup is the posting
of various so-called business opportunities that violate not only
these guidelines, but also Federal law.  You owe it to yourself to be
both informed and cautious.  If you have access to the World-Wide Web,
an excellent resource with information on those who prey on job seekers
is <URL:http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/emplmenu.htm>.

End of austx-jobs 1.8
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