Head hunting

Question

A lot of bandwidth in this mailing list has been devoted to the question
of recruitment postings. At the risk of making the problem worse, I
would like to express my opinion against these.
I have enough miles on my chassis to know that it is more common for
commercial content to crowd out technical content than it is for them to
peacefully co-exist. I have no objections to headhunters plying their
trade; they perform a useful function. But I would much rather see
recruiting and technical issues be on separate mailing lists.
Newspapers do not disperse want ads randomly through the paper, but
consolidate them in the "Want Ads" section, for the benefit of both
their readers and their advertisers. I believe a similar scheme would be
of benefit here. With the present scheme of everything on the same
mailing list, we run the risk of loosing recruitment notices in a mass
of technical traffic (at the present mix), losing techinical info in a
mass of want ads (if my nightmare comes true), or having a melange in
which it's all munged together and it's hard to hunt up what I want.
If I understand Eugene Rooney's mailing, Sage Solutions wants to run a
technical forum. That's fine, because that means Sage Solutions' desires
coincide with mine, and it is ultimately Sage Solutions that determines
the content of the mailing. If they wish to restrict recruitment
content, they have my blessing.
So where do the recruitment notices go? Anyone with enough Internet
access to post to this mailing list in the first place has enough to run
their own list server. Sage Solutions could in fact start a recruitment
list if they so choose. So could GAP, or Relational Options, Inc.
"Existence" announcements could be cross-posted monthly.
In short, and IM(NS)HO, I would prefer to see recruiting and technical
discussion kept separate.
Tom Wyant
The opinions expressed in this document are my own.

Answer 1

Tom, thanks for the heads up on the drive. The A30 was bought as able to write DVDs and the manual describes the process. I tracked the model of the drive from the hardware panel in Windows. Your advice ties up with the behaviour as it clearly does not recognise the blank disc. I will get back to Toshiba and find out via the PC model number - maybe!.
John