Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Enrico Zini , 2013-12-10, 18:02: it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google recruiters. I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people find it annoying. I find it amusing. I like my vanity tickled. I am toying with the idea of contacting

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Gergely Nagy
Arno Töll writes: > On 10.12.2013 18:02, Enrico Zini wrote: >> it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google >> recruiters. > > actually it's good enough to post on Debian mailing lists. Every now and > then the usual suspects [1][2] seem to write everyone appearing on lis

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 10.12.2013 18:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > recruiters. actually it's good enough to post on Debian mailing lists. Every now and then the usual suspects [1][2] seem to write everyone appearing on list archives. They seem to

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Enrico Tassi
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > recruiters. > > I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people > find it annoying. My experience with just ignoring their email

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Enrico Zini writes ("Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs"): > I'm not much interested in stopping spam, but in just making it better > for everyone involved. People may not want to be contacted now, but at > the same time may not want to train their spamfilter to delete job > offers. > > On

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Enrico Zini dijo [Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0100]: >> it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google >> recruiters. >> I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people >> find it annoying. My experience with just ignoring

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Even if one major employer politely agreed not to do this, it is worth > remembering that there are gazillions of tiny little agencies out > there. Most operate at arm's length from the big employers, giving > themselves more latitu

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:24:07AM -0600]: > That's my experience as well. But once I told them I'm not interested > in changing my current laboral situation, it stopped. I get recruiters > mailing me every now and then, but a fairly tolerable rate (say, one > every 3-4 months). (..

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Enrico Zini dijo [Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0100]: > Hello, > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > recruiters. > > I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people > find it annoying. My experience with just ignoring their email wa

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from > > Google recruiters. > > Is it just one recruiter at Google or is it multiple people? Many, many people. I know most of them by name now. They send out lots of mail

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/13 18:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from > Google recruiters. Is it just one recruiter at Google or is it multiple people? Are they actually Google staff or is it an extern

Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-10 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google recruiters. I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people find it annoying. My experience with just ignoring their email was that I was contacted again. I am toying with the idea of contacting c

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up [and 1 more messages]

2013-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
On debian-private I wrote: > I recently had occasion to email to the #debian-devel chanops about > the behaviour of a couple of people there. I found it difficult to > find where to contact them; I ended up tracking down a subset of the > email addresses via various resources including wiki pages

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-12-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm quite very late to this party, but I want to express that I do agree with the general idea of publishing mailinglist bans. (In public, with a duration attached to it, probably with other restraints I've forgotten since I've read this thread.) What's the "official status" of the listmas