Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!orca!hammer!seifert From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Meeting people via email/net.singles Message-ID: <1437@hammer.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:34:06 EDT Article-I.D.: hammer.1437 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:34:06 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 05:51:09 EDT References: <5557@cbscc.UUCP> <595@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 48 Snoopy: >> Strangely enough, e-mail proposals for dates get accepted much >> more often than phone proposals, despite being even *less* >> personal, and dispite not having even met in many cases. >> Hmmm, maybe *because* we haven't met! :-) Tim Bessie: >Really? Yes, really! >Wait... are you talking about people who go to SCHOOL with you? hmm... >Despite the net marriages we've been hearing about, I'd like to hear >from all the people who have actuall met and made dates with people >via email and/or net.singles, and who AREN'T going to school. It is >much easier to make dates with people you go to school with, and I'd >be interested in finding out about people who met over the net who are >not in that kind of immediate proximity to each other. School? USENET wasn't around when I was in school, you young whippersnapper! (We did have v6 UNIX, though) No, I'm working on the 6000 series UNIX workstations for Tektronix. I've had real, live, gen-u-ine dates with some very fine ladies from the east coast, midwest, west, and west coast, and from Canada. All through the wonder of USENET and e-mail. Sure it's much easier to get together with someone who's in the same town, but with a little ingenuity you can arrange to meet people during conferences, vacations, trips home to see the family, business trips, and so on. I only know of a few cases where people have gone cross-country just to meet a keyboard-pal. Of course if you do really hit it off you are then faced with an LDR, or one or both of you moving, or sadly, dropping the relationship due to distance. It *can* get rather frustrating to wake up and discover that most of your friends are scattered all over North America. It is also frustrating when you can't manage to get together with someone without making a special trip (time consuming and expensive). Snoopy Graphics Workstations Division, Tektronix tektronix!hammer!seifert [from anywhere] tekecs!snoopy@doghouse.TEK [from within Tek only :-( ] UNIX is a trademark of American Dynamite, Belly Wabbitories "Sex, USENET, and George Winston on solo piano"