Beau Gould is the owner and moderator of what was until very recently the 'pythonzopejobs' group on groups.yahoo.com. Two days ago, I got a PHP/MySQL job from a Yahoo Groups address I didn't recognize. Initially, I classified it as spam, and forgot about it.
Today, I had reason to search the archives of 'pythonzopejobs', and was greeted by a message that the group didn't exist. A little investigation showed that I was now subscribed to an 'allopensourcejobs' group, and that this was in fact the renamed 'pythonzopejobs' group, not to mention the souce of the PHP/MySQL 'spam' job posting. I posted to the list and CC'd the owner/moderator (Mr. Gould), asking why such a change had been made with no discussion or announcement. I soon realized that the group had become moderated again, and that my email was not reaching the other group members. After a few exchanges with Mr. Gould asking that the list be returned to it's previous focus or that at the very least a message announcing the change be sent to the group, it became clear (despite some half-hearted and insincere reassurances on his part) that Mr. Gould now considered the list his personal fiefdom, and that he was intent on using it as an opt-out spam list to extract whatever value he could. Mr. Gould then changed the name of the group again (this time to 'opensourcejobs'), possibly in a bid to make it even harder to unsubscribe (though that is speculation on my part), and I was banned from the group. Further email from me to Mr. Gould has been ignored. I have personally forwarded Mr. Gould's job postings from the pythonzopejobs list to various candidates on several occasions in the past, but I won't be doing that any more, and based on my experience today I cannot recommend doing business with Mr. Gould or Superior Staffing Services. - Michael R. Bernstein michaelbernstein.com Author of Zope Bible -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
