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My rule of thumb has been to deny anyone who looked like a recruiter and had a LinkedIn profile showing them as being somewhere other than the Greater Boston area. Requests from profiles that are listed as in the Greater Boston area, I examine more closely before deciding, but I lean toward denying recruiters by default. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: > Do we want to permit recruiters in the BLU LinkedIn group? > > Last week a recruiter from NY tried to join. He had previously joined > literally thousands of groups. Clearly he was simply trying to expand > his network by indiscriminately joining every group he could. I rejected > his request. > > Today a recruiter from Winter, Wyman & Company requested to join. Given > that they're local, and we permit recruiters to join and post to the > discussion list, I'm inclined to approve the request. Opinions? > > > As a reminder, you can join the BLU LinkedIn here: > http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/41383/3CB646132D6B > > (No need to email a request. I periodically check for requests.) > > -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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