Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>>   [Perl Jobs] (onsite) US-NY-NYC, Mod_Perl/Linux/Unix/SQL Developers
> 
> We don't have the location information in a data format structured 
> enough to do that.
> 
> (How do you shorten region names in say Spain.  Do they even use region 
> names?  How do you shorten Podunkville?  In Belgium?)

Lets take it one step at a time. We should at least be able to do 
2-letter country codes. And for the US, state abbreviations. For 
anything else, you'd have to use it as-supplied on the form.

I could also see an argument for eliminating the locality (city/town) 
portion from the subject line.

The question then becomes whether it is better to have a longish 
location pushing the job title beyond where it can typically be read, or 
as it is now, having titles push the location information beyond visibility.

Personally, I consider the titles to be of fairly low information value, 
and almost never a deciding factor on whether to open a message. The 
location information (if not telecommute) is of more value.

A more consistent and compact format would also lend itself to filtering 
with regular expressions.

  -Tom

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