2009/8/22 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
False. The reason is that people can post entirely reasonable things on these lists and employers can then be hyper-discriminative about their personal interests and choose not to hire them, or to fire them.
Pity they're all over gmane and nabble, then.
Suggestion: a Google search on gmane and/or nabble linked from the archive pages.
- d.