I'm a contract computer programmer and there must be a lot of contract and consulting jobs offered through the Internet. Am I right? How do I find them?

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I'm a contract computer programmer and there must be a lot of contract and consulting jobs offered through the Internet. Am I right? How do I find them?

Check out the newsgroup misc.jobs.contract.

The best place to start is the document "Frequently Asked Questions about contract jobs on Usenet". To obtain this FAQ, FTP to

rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/contract-jobs/faq

While you're there, you should grab a related file that serves as an introduction to the misc.jobs.contract newsgroup: to get it, FTP to

rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/contract-jobs/intro

If you want to receive these documents via electronic mail, you can send e-mail.

To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
Subject: <subject line is ignored>
Body: send /pub/usenet/news.answers/contract-jobs/faq
      send /pub/usenet/news.answers/contract-jobs/intro

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