FC: A defense of David Scott Anderson and resume spamming

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Previous Politech message:

"David Scott Anderson: An unapologetic resume spammer, and a twist"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03730.html

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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 23:37:49 -0400
From: [named deleted per request]
To: declan () well com
Subject: anderson

i found this to be very interesting. i also try to do some placement among 
other tech work and receive tons of resumes via email. i do subscribe to a 
few services for this purpose, yet i receive others from places i have not 
subscribed where it appears the resume was sent by the applicant. i will 
also add people are getting desperate for jobs. most need the money badly. 
other need the resulting self-esteem. or socialization. whatever the 
reason, people need a job. too many are out of work. i get resumes with the 
subject 'will code for food'. we are in bad shape as a whole.

personally, i would not have reported him as a spammer, but deleted the 
mail. he is just trying to find a job. many, myself included use free addys 
as a privacy and protection measure. otoh, he over reacted to your 
reporting him as a spammer. i noticed on his resume was customer service. 
that behavior does not indicate customer service.

these days tempers and patience are very short. i think in direct 
proportion to the outside temp and humidity and the revelations of 
companies such as wcom. everyone i think has some feelings of loss of 
control, and is trying to find it anyplace possible.

we all need to take a step back before we react to anything in a negative 
manner. nerves are too frayed.

if you are going to get bent out of shape over a resume being emailed, i'd 
rather see you spend that time trying to educate people to use anti-virus 
and not to use outlook so we can finally get rid of klez which is really 
screwing up mail, servers, workstations, communications etc. how many 
billions has this cost? then we can tackle the real spammers.

i have reacted in a similar manner as you at times. i do try hard to be 
careful. it is getting tougher though.

i know you only report news and similar, but i think the real story behind 
this resume, and others emailed by applicants or services is why people of 
this caliber and better, are reduced to doing this sort of thing. why is it 
so tough to find any job? what are the real unemployment numbers? people no 
longer collecting benefits are no longer counted, yet they are just as 
unemployed. why are the ken lays etc making so much money? and not using 
some of that to hire others? the distribution of wealth is shifting rapidly 
eliminating more of the middle class. that to me is the story.

if it's just who reported who to where you might just as well get out the 
tape measures and save a lot of trouble.

just my $.02. enough of the rant. 




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