Among the BALUG lists, such items should *only* go to the "talk" list (balug-talk@lists.balug.org http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org) if at all. Note that one needs to be subscribed to the "talk" list to send to the "talk" list. The "announce" list is NOT appropriate for such (it's moderated, and such items *should* get rejected). For "talk", they should at least be sufficiently relevant (e.g. LINUX and Bay Area) to generally avoid annoying folks (it is after all BALUG, as in Bay Area Linux Users Group, it's not job seekers of all things LINUX/UNIX/computers of the USA and/or planet). Generally best also that the message be short (one can always include a URL for further details and information).
Also, getting oneself to a BALUG meeting, and talking a bit about the company and position and such can be rather to quite useful - probably much more fitting for direct employers (or employees of said employer which are close to the open position), than recruiters/agencies. Anyway, there's generally a small bit of time avaialable at the BALUG meetings for short (<~=2 minute) announcements. We have had recruiters attend our meetings, at least on occassion ... but best used for a "networking" opportunity, not as a sales/marketing opportunity.
references/excerpts:
Quoting Blair Mandell bmandell@availigent.com:
Job Opportunity for Linux Kernel Engineers I apologize for posting, but we need someone that knows this space, and that is BALUG!
Quoting "Francis St. Amant" Francis.St.Amant@riverbed.com:
Riverbed uses Linux as the OS on our market leading network appliances. I have a number of jobs available for Linux-savvy engineers. Do you have a place to post jobs?