ARPANET-BBOARDS@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU

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   list is to distribute: (a) emergency notices ("Southern California just 
   slid into the Pacific, machines at ISI and UCSD will be down for a few 
   days"), and (b) notices of "academic interest", such as seminar and 
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   appropriate (the DoD would get upset, among other considerations).  A 
   touchy borderline case is job offerings.  The practice has been to accept 
   postings from universities (the research community) and the research 
   oriented military installations (the people paying for our hardware) but 
   to refuse postings from private companies.  The (shaky) rational behind 
   this is that university and military job offerings are "research 
   opportunities" as opposed to for-profit advertisements (ie, joining the 
   army or a university is not the way to get rich).

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