CHARTER FOR THE BA.JOBS.* GROUPS

BA.JOBS.* is for the posting of job announcements, resumes and general
discussion of the job market in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.  This
document is a periodic posting to the BA.JOBS.* newsgroups and is also at
http://www.wco.com/~oriole/ba-jobs-charter.html or via anonymous FTP from
ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/oriole/ba.jobs.charter

For the purposes of the BA.JOBS.* newsgroups, the San Francisco Bay area
will include an area within a reasonable commuting distance from areas
usually assumed to be Bay Area communities.  This includes a large portion
of Northern California from below Gilroy to above Santa Rosa and East to
near Sacramento including such communities as Modesto, Stockton, Manteca,
etc. that may be within a conceivable commuting radius of San Francisco Bay.
Please see the FAQ for more detail.

These newsgroups are retro-moderated.  Retro-moderation means postings not
meeting the guidelines in this charter are subject to automatic cancellation
by individuals approved by the BA.JOBS.* advisory board.  Posters of
articles may be notified via email of cancellation of their articles.
Repeated violation of this charter may result in all BA.JOBS.* postings from
the violator being canceled on sight for "30" days.  Continued abuse of the
newsgroup after this "time out" may result in permanent cancellation of all
postings to the groups.

                             POSTING GUIDELINES

Posters in the BA.JOBS.* newsgroups should adhere to these guidelines:

     No job or resume posting may be made more frequently than once in a
     fourteen (14) day period.

        o Re-posting of duplicate or nearly duplicate articles can result in
          article cancellation.
 
        o All postings must be for actual positions.

        o Job postings for the sole purpose of resume collection are
          prohibited.

        o Resumes may be collected from the resumes group.

     All job postings must be for positions in the "San Francisco Bay Area,"
     which is generally described above and is more fully defined in the
     BA.JOBS.* FAQ.

        o Please use the misc.jobs and us.jobs groups for national or
          international employee recruitment.

        o Resumes must be posted by individuals in the Bay Area or searching
          in the Bay Area for employment.
 
        o Do not post a listing in more than one BA.JOBS.* newsgroup.

     The organization posting the job offer should be identified.

        o The name of the company, agency or recruiter making the offer MUST
          appear in the header of the posting.  It is suggested that you use
          the "Organization:" header for this information.

     Crossposting to other groups is permissible, but:

        o Please be aware that if a posting does not meet the BA.JOBS
          guidelines, the article may be canceled.  An article that is
          crossposted to several groups is canceled in all of the groups it
          appears in when it is canceled in any one of them.

        o In cooperation with other regional newsgroups, crossposts to
          regional newsgroups outside the bay area is prohibited.
          (e.g. posts to ca.* or scruz.* are permitted but posts
          to la.* or seattle.* are prohibited)

        o Listings must be posted to a single BA.JOBS.* newsgroup ONLY.
          Crosspostings to multiple BA.JOBS.* newsgroups can result in
          article cancellation.  Reposting an article to another
          BA.JOBS.* newsgroup may also result in article cancellation
          as a duplicate post.

     Use of the "Followup-To:" header is required.

        o All postings should contain either Followup-To: ba.jobs.discussion
          or Followup-To: poster to avoid inappropriate traffic in the
          groups.

        o Followup-To: another discussion group on the Usenet is permissible
          but attention will be paid to attempts to initiate flame wars via
          massive crossposting of controversial material.

     Location of the position must be provided.

        o The geographical location or locations of the job site must be
          stated in either the "Subject:" header or at the top of the
          article.  The top is defined as within the first 10 lines.

        o Please be as specific as possible.

        o Note that this requirement makes BA.JOBS.* postings violate
          the charters of other regional newsgroups.  Posting in 
          BA.JOBS.* newsgroups crossposting to other regional groups
          is mutually exclusive and will violate the charter of at
          least one of the groups and is prohibited.

     Resumes should be in plain ASCII text with no more than 72 characters
     per line.  Resumes posted in HTML, PostScript, Acrobat, TeX, nroff,
     troff, or other formatting language are subject to cancellation.

                          NEWSGROUPS IN BA.JOBS.*

BA.JOBS.DISCUSSION: General discussion of jobs and the job market in the SF
                    Bay area.

BA.JOBS.CONTRACT.AGENCY: Contract/temporary job postings from agencies.

BA.JOBS.CONTRACT.DIRECT: Contract/temporary job postings from principals.

BA.JOBS.AGENCY: Permanent employment postings by agencies.

BA.JOBS.DIRECT: Permanent employment postings by principals.

BA.JOBS.RESUMES: Resumes of individuals seeking employment in the SF
                 Bay Area and of those living here.

                           ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information and more detailed guidelines may be found in the
BA.JOBS FAQ which is posted periodically to all BA.JOBS.* newsgroups.

                                                     Charter Created 3/15/97
                                                     Modified        4/30/97