[bostik]

> Be grateful we live in a time where our greatest annoyance is someone contacting us with a job opportunity.

I've said this before, and will say it again: there is a world of difference between being approached by a recruiter who has been explicitly commissioned to fill a position, and being hounded by a recruiter who is just trying to fill their quota.

Hell, some time ago I got so annoyed that I disgorged my thoughts to a post: http://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/pages/recruiter-anxiety.htm...

I still try to maintain a reasonable approach to them. I get an insane amount of recruiter spam at my work inbox, which I ignore. Everyone is trying to get their (live)stock hired by anyone, for anything. Some of the more enterprising ones will try to inmail me with their solicitations. Most of them contain a magic phrase "I noticed you are looking for developers". I've started to send these individuals a canned response: "If you found that out, you also read that we don't accept agency resumes." I also include the link to my post above.

Seems quite an effective repellent so far.