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- From: linimon@nominil.lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
- Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,news.answers
- Subject: Misc.jobs.contract: Welcome to misc.jobs.contract
- Summary: a first introduction to the job contracting group on Usenet
- Message-ID: <contract_welcome_725184616@nominil.lonesome.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 08:10:08 GMT
- Expires: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 08:09:48 GMT
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- Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services
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- Supersedes: <contract_welcome_722751615@nominil.lonesome.com>
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- Archive-name: contract-jobs/welcome
- Version: 1.01
- Last-Modified: Thu Dec 10 23:04:21 EST 1992
-
- This periodic posting serves as an introduction to newsgroup misc.jobs.
- contract for new readers. A companion posting, "Misc.jobs.contract:
- Frequently Asked Questions" <contract_faq_725184616@nominil.lonesome.com>,
- summarizes some of the past discussion in the group.
-
- Misc.jobs.contract is a Usenet newsgroup created to foster exchange of
- information about employment on a contract basis, as opposed to employment
- on a full-time basis. Postings of interest to full-time employees should
- instead be directed to misc.jobs.misc.
-
- Although the group is not _specifically_ dedicated to computer-related
- contract work, most of the discussion in the group has related to it.
-
- Postings of contracts WANTED, contracts OFFERED, and general discussion
- are welcomed. To help readers distinguish between these, please consider
- using descriptive Subject: lines (and other headers). For instance,
- examine these examples:
-
- Subject: OFFERED: X Windows contract @ Frobozz, CA, USA
- Summary: 6 month contract offered
-
- Subject: WANTED: contract involving Unix internals, device drivers, C++
- Summary: CA or MA, USA, 4 months or up
-
- Subject: What experiences have you had with Section 1706?
-
- Past experience in misc.jobs.offered may be relevant to the OFFERED
- postings. An excerpt of the periodic posting to misc.jobs.offered
- follows:
-
- Experience has shown that the following style of "Subject:" line
- is found to be most useful to many potential readers:
-
- Subject: Systems Administrator @ Someone's Computers Inc, CA, USA
-
- The style shown above has a number of features. The first field gives
- a 2 to 3 word job description: this summary phrase allows the readers
- to skip the offer if there is an obvious talent/aspiration mis-match.
- The second field announces the company name, which also gives the
- potential reader some idea of the flavor of the contract. The third
- and fourth fields give the approximate geographic location, and allow
- the reader to skip those offers which have an obvious geographic
- mismatch. The fields are separated by punctation characters ('@'
- signs and commas) to help the reader to spot the four fields quickly
- by eye.
-
- Also please consider setting the Followup-To: line to another group
- whenever conversation drifts away from contract work; and also consider
- reading the periodic postings in news.announce.newusers before posting.
- As a final note, frequent repostings of a single article (contracts wanted
- or available) may be considered weak net.etiquette by some readers.
-
- This posting is subject to comment and improvement by sending email to
- linimon@nominil.lonesome.com.
- --
- Mark Linimon / Lonesome Dove Computing Services / Roanoke, Virginia
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