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From: dann@wxlvax.UUCP (Dan Neiman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What Is Single (and how do I deal with it)
Message-ID: <208@wxlvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 18:38:54 EST
Article-I.D.: wxlvax.208
Posted: Tue Nov 29 18:38:54 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Dec-83 04:05:59 EST
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   I agree with the points made by Greg Woods and Jeff Sargent as to 
   the basic purpose of net.singles.  As I recall, the goal of this 
   group, was more-or-less to be a mutual support forum for those
   people on the net whose lack of MOTAS (Members of the Appropriate
   Sex, for those of you who are new here) borders on the chronic.

   Most of the contributions I've seen lately have been from folks
   whose only claim to singlehood seems to be legal.  I can 
   sympathize with the problems of someone who doesn't know how to
   deal with his/her last 34 significant others when they all show
   up at the same party, but only in an avuncular or even voyeuristic
   fashion.  What I'd really like to know is how they attracted number 35.


   The basic problem is just meeting people.  This is always difficult,
  but after you get out of school, the problem becomes (about)
  1.24503 X 10E+06  times worse.  Given a large enough pool of MOTAS
  in which to mingle and enough time to do the mingling, even the
  least competent of us could probably find at least one person for to 
  go strolling with on moonlight beaches and perform other acts of
  pleasant non-solitary diversion.

   So, friends and neightbors, what activities were you engaged in 
   when you found yourself suddenly significantly othered?  Was it 
   serendipity or were you actually on the prowl?  

   Well, enough.  I want to leave time to read net.parthenogenesis.

   As they say, familiarity breeds attempt.


   dann