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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: net.personals
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 09:17:50 EDT
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Somehow the original article commenting on my observation about net.personals
didn't get here and I only saw it in a followup, but anyway:

I wrote:

>>>It [net.personals] seems to me to
>>>be a bad thing.  (Actually, when I first started reading the Network News,
>>>I used to avoid net.singles, because I thought that was what it WAS.)

and someone else responded:

>>Don't know why you say it would be a bad thing.  However, if
>>you feel it would be, you can treat it the way you used to treat
>>net.singles, i.e., don't read it.

Well, the reason I said "bad thing" was that in my experience, the sort of
people who respond to personal ads are of a distinct personality type, and
I must admit that it is a personality type I am not too fond of.  Maybe it
takes a lot of "courage" or "desperation" to respond to such an ad; I don't
know.  But I don't think the participants represent a full sample of
the people around.

A second (maybe main) reason why I said that, which is harder to argue
for, was the fact that I was worried that if net.personals became "the"
place to meet people (in that sense of the word), people would assume that
if you didn't put an ad in net.personals, you were in some sense
"inaccessible" or "uninterested".  I agree with Chris, who said:

> net.singles fulfills this purpose just fine.

I have met many nice people here.  I feel like I know most of the people
who write here at least a little, even if I always seem to argue with some
of them constantly in here.  (In fact, some of the people I have argued with
a great deal I feel very positively towards due to non-net.singles corres-
pondence).  I think this is much better than something that says something
like "28 yr old male seeks female of like persuasion.  Fat people and
people who listen to Mick Jagger need not apply.  Personal interests:
color analysis."

However, I'm not one to discourage such things if others like it; I just
hope it wouldn't have an adverse affect on this newsgroup here.
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