atw: Job ads on austechwriter [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Maybe we need to agree as a group on our attitude to job ads on this list. 
The information about the list says:

This list is a forum for technical writers to discuss the theory and 
practice of technical communication. The forum will become an archive of 
useful tips and solutions regarding workflow queries, software usage, 
project planning, documentation standards...indeed anything of relevance 
to the profession of technical authoring.

It doesn't mention job ads, though the last part is pretty vague.

I don't mind the current quantity of ads - and I'd hope that the posters 
of the ads to this list might know a bit more about what tech writers do. 
But I can imagine it could reach an annoying level and then we might have 
to reassess the situation.

Rereading the information I just quoted, I can't now resist observing that 
it starts of with 'technical writers', then moves to 'technical 
communication' and then finally to 'technical authoring'. Are there some 
subtle distinctions being made here, or was the author just using what 
Fowler called 'elegant variation'?

Oh dear, here I go again. Some of us just can't read any piece of text 
without subjecting it to a critical analysis. (My toaster said 'Crumpets 
face inwards' and I started wondering whether it was an exhortation to the 
crumpets or a notional definition of the nature of a crumpet. Yes, maybe I 
do need to get a life.)

Howard

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