[R] ... Job Openings .. on R-help

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "BertG" == Berton Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:47:40 -0700 writes:

    BertG> I hope that this job posting does not offend
    BertG> anyone. My sincere apologies if it is inappropriate
    BertG> -- blame me, not my company.

since you ask for it .. ;-)

    BertG> -- Bert Gunter
    BertG> Genentech Nonclinical Statistics
    BertG> South San Francisco, CA
 

    >> Genentech has an opening 
    >> <...................>
    >> <...................>
    >> <...................>

a job advertisement with a word count of  (50 352 2486) [lines,words,chars]
which is a bit too long, but ok,
but with a final paragraph which can be read as a blatant
advertisement for your company.  That (last paragraph) was not
appropriate in my opinion.

People have contacted me (as mailing list maintainer) and asked
about the appropriateness of such postings, and I've usually
explained that it is ok, as long as it remains short, is
explicitly related to R, to the
point, and refers to a URL for further information.

Hence Bert's add was close to the target.

The other anonymous add which only gave an "anonymous" e-mail
address for contact (see above; of course we really should
e-bomb it :-) was *VERY* inappropriate though.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
as R mailing lists maintainer.