<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; ">On 13 Dec 2010, at 19:36, Tim Golden wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm genuinely surprised by this reaction which comes up<br>even more forcefully on the main Python lists. It seems<br>like a reasonable use of a (technically and geographically)<br>focused mailing list. You might not like job agencies, but<br>there doesn't seem to be anything intrinsically wrong with<br>them.<br><br>Am I missing something? Is some kind of Linux-culture thing<br>which doesn't spill over...?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>+1</div><div>The Python community is still very small; I was surprised at the last Europython to discover that most of the people present did not earn a wage from Python. Anything that helps more pythonistas earn a living from their passion is good IMO.</div><div>While I can understand strong opposition on the main Python list (which is about the language itself), python-uk is a low-volume list for discussions about the Python *community* in this country... and jobs are a part of that.</div><div>Obviously, once tens of thousands of UK devs earn their living from Python, then I will join the "NO" camp :-) </div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>